What will it take for the widespread adoption of the Gurukul Model?
A revival of the Gurukul education system has been promised in the Virat Gurukul Sammelan held in Madhya Pradesh this week but how do we ensure the widespread adoption of this model? Here are some insights from our participation in the sammelan. In current times, the education model of Finland is considered to be one of the best in the world. This has More...
Do we want Padmavati or Christ next to Thimmappa – Decide!
I regret to state that Tirupati is soon going to go into the hands of Christians and Muslims. I don’t intend to scare anyone. But that is the reality. Most of us usually book hotel, bus, flight and even darshan More...
The Cultural Logic of Hindutva
Hindutva and the Slanderous Liberals The liberals consistently slander Hindutva. As a cultural or political conviction, they regard it thoroughly undesirable. A mere article such as this is not enough to recount More...
Does Rutgers University promote White Supremacy and Hinduphobia?
Why is it that the West thinks that it is game to put down anything Hindu? Why is there such hatred among its population towards the people of the third biggest religion in the World, which has millenniums of unbroken More...
Yogic response to sexual violation
Just a few months back we saw the explosive ‘Me-too’ movement that came out in the open to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the workspace all over the world. There were More...
Claim the narrative, don’t let biased media define us
News has never been a completely objective account. Framing, a theory in journalism studies, states that news stories often emphasize one aspect of a given event, while ignoring others. This usually leads to an More...
Language – Transcending the Political Space
In the rest of the world language disputes have mostly disappeared, but in South Asia acrimony over language still erupts from time to time. Current fashionable discourse on the problematics of language use (both More...
How ISIS steals our Heritage and sells it for terror-funding
For more than a millennia, innumerable Hindu artifacts have been either destroyed or stolen and smuggled to various foreign countries. Some stole or destroyed them for ideological purposes, like the Islamic invaders More...
Bollywood’s passive-aggressive attitude towards Hinduism
My daughter was insisting that we watch “funny videos” on YouTube (casting on TV) while she had her scrambled egg breakfast and waited for her math teacher to show up. When I started the YouTube app, I came More...
Deadly blend: Cambridge Analytica, caste and colonialism
In his autobiography ‘Mein Kampf’, European mass murderer Adolf Hitler wrote: “The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” American author Tom Clancy More...