An Indian Classics Curriculum
Higher education around the world is facing a crisis. Students are caught between the ever increasing cost of tuition and the permanent loss of jobs due to automation and AI. Several things are being considered to mitigate the crisis and these include use of technology to reduce the cost of education and creating programs which focus more More...
Dhenu and Vrishabha as symbols of Dharmic Environmentalism
Introduction “If anthropocentricity with respect to ecological problems is the problem – envisioning the universe as a Dharmic system, in which we are instigated to be unselfish, is the answer” observed More...
India’s List of Untouchables: Getting Pruned Slowly but Surely in Recent Days
Some very important developments in the last few weeks have prompted me to think that the Indian list of untouchables and untouchabilities may be getting pruned after all these decades. Indeed, there springs a More...
Scrapping Article 370: Why nobody bought the media narrative on Kashmir
India’s military reinforcements in Kashmir over the past week resulted in a lot of scaremongering regarding the consequences of revoking Article 370. This highly controversial law – which conferred unconstitutional More...
Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb as a source of India’s strength : A quick examination
In making the above statement it is accepted that Pakistan is a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. “Hindu-Pakistan” — a derogatory term coined by Shashi Tharoor, was a ploy to demonise the rise of Hindu-nationalism More...
Dogma: The German Refugee Crisis
The word ‘dogma’ is of Greek origin, in which it meant settled opinion or tenet. The word is also etymologically related to the word doctrine. Despite having migrated from Greek via various other Romance language More...
Caste 101 and the curious case of the Left-Liberal
Sample this: Suresh (SC) enters a work space where a number of women are working. The women are a mixture of Paraiyars (SCs), Gounders (BCs) and Mudaliars (FCs). Note also that all these women are sitting together More...
An Endearing Protagonist Whose Life Has to be Pursued
Every story can be dated not just by the year of its publication but by the vintage and identity of its characters and the events described in the narrative. Now, in a time when we mark everything digitally, both More...
No, Mr. Godrej, You Are Way Out of Line – This Just Won’t Do
A few days ago, Adi Godrej, one of the patriarchs of the well-known and respected Godrej business conglomerate stepped into a minefield when he launched a totally unnecessary salvo on socio-political issues that More...
Moonshot: Why India must take the lead in the final frontier
India’s second unmanned mission to the Moon lifted off on July 22 on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s gigantic GSLV Mark III rocket. With three modules – an orbiter, lander and rover –Chandrayaan 2 More...