Hip! Hip! Hooray for Yoga!
Over the past 46 years since taking my first series of Hatha Yoga classes, during my senior year of high school in 1969, in the basement of the Episcopal church in Abilene, Texas, I have attended various classes More...
Pakistan: Historiography in the headlines
This excerpt is taken from the author’s forthcoming book titled, The Politics of Historiography in India. The newspaper article described below is written mostly by liberal Pakistanis, when each was asked to write More...
Irfan Habib still searching for the Saraswati River
But a library shelf filled with contemporary geographical and historical research about the Sindhu-Saraswati [aka] Harappan [aka] IVC has been right under his nose for twenty-five years! In the 17 April edition More...
Denying the existence of the Saraswati River akin to denying gravity
Since his retirement from a life of service at NCERT, Arjun Dev was in the forefront condemning the BJP textbooks. Arjun Dev wrote in an article that appeared in Mainstream, November 9, 2002 Pushing the Parivar More...
Academic Hinduphobia in America
The study of Hinduism in the West is currently undergoing a metamorphosis. Second and third generation Hindu-Americans, who since the 1960’s were educated in American high schools, have been personally impacted More...
Secularist discourse resumes its Modi scare mongering
Since May 2014, when Narendra Modi won the popular elections and BJP assumed power in New Delhi, various media outlets and specific social organizations, who vehemently oppose what they refer to as Saffronization, More...
Historiography in Pakistan
While editing and updating the book, The Politicization of Historiography in India I incorporated an interesting article about textbooks that appeared in a Pakistani newspaper on August 14, 2014. The introductory More...
Imagining Jambudvipa: Rescuing Indology and Indian History
“. . . a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, More...
Countering the West’s bias about Sanatana Dharma
When Shivani Desai invited me to speak here in Chapel Hill, she explained that the objective of today’s gathering was to “Create awareness about Hindu culture and heritage…” and to “Motivate More...