Significance of Vrundavanas
In a ghastly act, miscreants have recently vandalized and destroyed the Moola Vrundavana of the great Dvaita Acharya Sri Vyasaraja Tirtha, located at Anegondi near Hampi in Karnataka. As a stark indicator of the fall in Dharma in our land, this desecration has occurred just after Guru Purnima. There has been all-round condemnation of this incident More...
A Dangerous Precedent of Judicial Discretion
“…Discretion of a judge is said to be the law of tyrants; it is always unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes More...
Bollywood’s Article 15, or, How to Be Ashamed of Your Country, by Sheer Ignorance
One can summarize Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15, Bollywood’s latest venture in demonizing India, her society and Hinduism by a few crisp phrases: terribly cheesy dialogues, second-rate acting, and cheap leftist More...
Burning Bengal: What Tagore warned about Indian Muslim’s psyche
Rabindranath Tagore played a key role in India’s freedom movement, but he was no ardent nationalist. At heart, he was an internationalist and humanist. To the great poet and Nobel Laureate, humanity was “rich, More...
Hindu Charter needs to be more comprehensive
“India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials More...
Europe: European History – A Briefest Overview- II
European colonialism lasted from the 16th to 20th centuries vastly extending their reach around the globe by establishing colonies in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Colonialism was of two types mainly: settler More...
Europe: Bouquets of Flowers on a Bed of Thorns- I
The second fortnight of May when the Sun is at its hottest best, we decided to channelize some hard-earned money for a family Europe tour. We opted for the 12 nights and 13 days tour starting Italy and ending in More...
Akshaya Patra mid-day meal controversy: Another attack on Dharmic values
Background The Akshaya Patra foundation (APF) and people supporting vegetarian meals in mid-day scheme have been under attack for long by organizations like Right to Food Campaign (RFC). During 2015, activists More...
How Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers Violate Their Oath of Office
Worldwide in no other democracy the Constitutional Oath of office administered by the President and the Governors of States is violated with such impunity as it is done in India. Time has come to analyse how and More...
Lion of Punjab: Maharaja Ranjit Singh was Indic first, secular last
Pakistan is built on a foundation of hate. It is a measure of how hateful the country’s dysfunctional establishment is that for many decades, in textbooks meant for primary schools, the letter Z was represented More...