Dharma Vigyan at BHU: Aims & Objectives of Mahamana
This article is an attempt at analyzing the current controversy regarding the appointment of a non-Hindu to the Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan (SVDV) department of the Benares Hindu University from the point of view of the original aims and objects of the institution, and the onus on the State to honour those goals. Article 28 of our Constitution More...
Does India have a National Language?
The language issue is a thorny one. There is no ‘peaceful’ answer to it. No matter, what position you take, someone will come at you with a ton of bricks. Nehru made sure of this when he lobbied for Hindi as More...
In search of the Orthodox Hindu
The phrase Orthodox Hindu is today possibly one of the more controversial phrases in the English language. It is instructional to note the origins of this phrase and how it has been used as a weapon for more than More...
Why Didn’t Hindus Give Up Ram Mandir?
What do you say of a people who carry on a movement over a piece of land for over half a millennium? What explains that they neither forgot nor any amount of atrocities made them give up their claims on the land? More...
Hungry Westerners: Why they should feed themselves and stop worrying about India
India is among the 45 countries that have “serious levels of hunger”, says the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI). Of the 117 countries surveyed India is ranked 102, apparently being worse off than Bangladesh. More...
Need for a Dharmic Election Manifesto for British Elections
Dharmic communities have largely been ignored by British political parties. Their real interests have rarely been on the political agenda. The fault lies mainly with Dharmic communities, especially Hindus and associated More...
Myth of Hindu Pacifism
Since historic times, being known to be intolerant of adharma was a mark of the greatest honor among the Hindus. In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna declares the reason for his manifestation on this Earth: to destroy More...
Are sex-selective abortions skewing population: Myth Versus Truth
Background on missing women In March 1992, economist Professor Amartya Sen published a paper titled the “Missing women” (Sen, Missing women, 1992) in which he confidently stated that social factors “must…explain the More...
Hindu civilisation and slavery
Traditionally, neither the Indian nor the Chinese civilisations were particularly well-known for practicing slavery. During the ancient and classical periods, neither India nor China ever practiced chattel slavery, wherein More...
Caste 102- Our Collective Cultural Caste-ration
“Caste is worse that Jihad!” via Twitter All you ground-warriors of Hinduism, the work you do is essential and difficult. I have the greatest of respect for it. I also understand that you are More...