How Did Modern Sanitation Lose Its Way?
Abstract: The world is in the throes of a sanitation crisis today with massive amounts of faecal sludge and wastewater from homes, commercial establishments and industries being discharged into rivers and other water bodies without proper treatment. Drinking water, which is pumped to homes and buildings, is being used to flush solids in toilets. The More...
Barbarika should never be allowed to fight
Recently a naxal sympathizer tweeted, in the context of raids and arrests of Urban Naxals. “Naxal movements have used violence — this is undeniable. But what is often lost in the analysis is this — the More...
The Neuro-Cognitive Science of Itihasa and Purana
The Itihasa and Purana are not just factual history or stories but narratives that cover various aspects of human endeavor. They not just reveal the past but pave way for the future and guide human aspirations. More...
India’s Cow Vigilantism: The other side of the story
Cow-related violence and lynching have been making the media headlines world over in the recent past, especially since the now 4-year old Modi government of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took office in 2014. What More...
Built Bharat: the Modern Derangement
The India of the 1960s and 1970s which, as was often repeated in public discourse, concentrated mostly in its villages, was already looking to its big cities for inspiration and guidance in matters of style and More...
God, Money and Sex: Child sexual abuse in Church
Close on the heels of the baby trading scandal at the Missionaries of Charity in India, yet another scandal in Australia involving child sexual abuse has claimed the scalp of Adelaide Archbishop – Phillip More...
Hinduism in Digital-Global Power Calculus: View through Prism of Management Theories
Unique to Hinduism is an uncluttered continuity in the face of frequent trials without sacrificing substantial degree of its intrinsic roots. In contrast, China, Japan among others surrendered to Westernization More...
Book Review: The Zero-Cost Mission and The Wily Agent
Stories about spies, intelligence agencies and covert operations always make for a captivating read. Probably because it’s seldom that any information trickles down from this arcane yet fascinating world of intelligence More...
Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business More...
Is Prakṛti Prejudiced?
We often forget that, the universe, the very creator and creation all encompassing, is the one and only master we have. It is through the manifestation of its energy that it controls everything in this world from More...