Murty classical library: A plea to Indian corporate donors to foreign institutions
This note is authored by Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, head of the Sarasvati Research Center, Chennai. At the outset, best wishes to Sheldon Pollock and Rohan Murty, Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty for publishing the first five volumes of a Library named after Murty using the Murty’s $5.2 million grant for Harvard’s Indian classics series announced More...
Do Indians prosper only abroad?
The idea that Indians do well abroad and are held back at home is an oft-repeated conviction in its city salons. Indeed the common man has also heard of glittering Indian successes abroad and suspects that all is More...
How To write about Hindus with your Left Hand
(This satirical piece was first published on the author’s blog) Always use the word Hindu as if you really meant to write Hindoo but are too polite. Words like ‘dusk’, ‘soul’, ‘heterodox’, ‘bourgeois’, More...
Girish Shahane’s myth-busting explodes in his own face
On the last day of 2014, Girish Shahane decided to be a mythbuster-I’m not saying this. They are his words wherein he purports to ‘debunk significant Hindutva myths.’ Mr. Sahane attempts in his so-called More...
Status of women in ancient India
This was contributed by Nirmal, and first published in Hinduism Today. They call it a bad rap when someone is wrongly accused of something, and in recent Indian history both women and Hinduism have suffered just More...
Proselytisation in India: A critique from a Dharmic perspective
1) Background A correspondent recently sent me a print-copy of Mr C.Alex Alexander’s “Proselytisation in India: An Indian Christian’s Perspective” describing it as “a fair and reasonable More...