IndiaFacts to Launch Hindu Human Rights Report 2017 on August 19
There is no dearth of Human Rights Reports being produced about India. But most of these exclude a large percentage of the human rights violations in India on the mistaken premise that rights violations in India can only take place against “minorities.” To rectify this key omission —that of discrimination against and persecution of Hindus in India More...
Islamic Inferno Is Charring The World With Saudi Arabia Merrily Playing Fiddle
Benitto Mussolini once proclaimed-“Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato” meaning “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”. The More...
From Maatar to Mother: Seeing Sanskrit in English
“How are your Sanskrit studies going?” asked Indira, a dear friend. Over the years, attending Sanskrit classes, I used to be fascinated as I began sensing similarities between many English words and Sanskrit More...
India’s Forgotten Soldiers: An Appeal to those criticizing them
I met an Indian colleague at work for the first time. We have interacted remotely many times but he lives in Manhattan while I live across the continent. So, this was the first in-person meeting. He mentioned that More...
In Conversation with Nithin Sridhar on ‘Musings on Hinduism’
What is Dharma? Why do you call yourself a Hindu? After all, what is the Hindu view on certain issues like menstruation? Is there a distinct Hindu gaze? Also, is that gaze a fixed rigid gaze? Or is it something More...
What’s making Sri Sri Ravi Shankar up for a fight-to-finish?
Whether Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s comments about a perceived mishandling by National Green Tribunal (NGT) are actually irresponsible or the latter’s outburst against the spiritual guru amounts to challenging his More...
Ridiculing Hindu gods and deities is easier and safer
The recent comments by Prashant Bhushan about Lord Krishna have enraged, I would say rightly, many devout Hindus. Surprisingly, when it comes to Lord Krishna, I saw that even those who often sit at the fence on More...
Kurukshetra, a travelogue – 1
The Grant Trunk Road – possibly the oldest surviving highway in the world – starts out in what is now Bangladesh, makes its way through the Gangetic plains, crosses Delhi, and moving northwards, passing More...
My thoughts on Jallikattu
There has been a nationwide debate going on whether the age-old festival celebrated in southern states, Jallikattu, should be banned or not. The Supreme Court of India banned the organisation of Jallikattu in 2014 More...
An Obituary to an Outstanding Sanskrit Scholar: Ramanuja Devanathan
Editor’s Note: It was wrongly mentioned that Acharya passed away on Jan 6, 2017. Dr. S Venugopalan has clarified that he passed away on the morning of Jan 7, 2017 at 6.45 AM. The necessary changes have been More...