Celebrating Indic Thoughts: A report on Indic Thoughts Festival 2017
The inaugural edition of “Indic Thoughts Festival” was held on December 17-18, 2017 at Grand Hyatt in Goa and the event turned out to be a grand success. It was a two day event, held immediately after India Ideas Conclave, and aimed to fuse elements of TED with a Lit Fest and a Cultural Fest. The Festival co-curated by Hari Kiran Vadlamani and Vikram More...
Towards achieving ‘critical mass’ for Indic cause: How we can contribute
Many of us remember old movies related to Indian Independence, often black and white, aired around some ‘national days’ on lazy weekends. For some of us, these movies became background sounds and without knowing, More...
Best of 2017: Articles you don’t want to miss
2017 has been another exciting year and IndiaFacts published some very important articles that has helped carry forward the grand Indic civilizational narrative by countering distortions and furthering debates on More...
Why is there a fear of Yoga?
This Tweet set me wondering. I did some research. Sure, there are many varieties of Yoga out there. Hot Yoga students do Yoga in hot humid conditions. If you don’t care for that, there’s Beer Yoga which is done More...
A windmill is my Murti
I have heard it said that if you truly seek an answer to a spiritual question, you’ll invariably come by a Guru’s wisdom. This is my story of such a discovery. For forty of my 75 years, my work has had something More...
Śāradā: Identity of Kashmiri Pandits
Kashmir, the Land of Śāradā considered as Sarvajna Peetha (the seat of all Knowledge) has always been the land of Rishis just as it has been the home to scholars in various fields of knowledge. It was even noted More...
What the Nobel Prize for Medicine Means for Ayurvedic Research
My earlier essay titled “Ayurveda’s Perception Issues” had emphasised upon a singularly important fact – While the classics of ayurveda contain trustworthy and employable clinical observations, More...
Happy Birthday Mr Gandhi!
Dear Mr Gandhi, Since childhood, we are taught to worship you as the best thing to happen to this country, the perfect human. There is no escaping you in India. Your face smiles at us on banknotes, your name is More...
IndiaFacts Hindu Human Rights Report launched at New Delhi: A Report
IndiaFacts in collaboration with Srijan Foundation launched India’s first ever Hindu Human Rights Report documenting both systematic and episodic violations of human rights, including sanctioned discrimination More...
The Queen who cursed a God: An excerpt from an upcoming book
Gandhari screwed her eyes shut behind her blindfold. She shrunk her eyes into their sockets, withdrawing as far into herself as she could. If she could, she would have squeezed her ears shut. She shrank into More...