Hindutva or Hinduism? A subtle Polemic against Hindu Dharma
Abstract During the course of our freedom movement, the idea of nationalism as it is known to us today crystallised in its various psycho-philosophical constructs. The one carried forward by the Indian National Congress of those days could be called ‘territorial nationalism’ that had a free India as its goal, irrespective of any other characteristic More...
Contribution of Indian Philosophers to Mnemonics
Mnemonics is a learning technique that aids information retention in the human memory. Mnemonics make use of elaborate encoding, retrieval cues, and imagery as specific tools to encode any given information in a More...
Svādhyāya: Studying our Holy Books- IV
[contextly_sidebar id=”89f8CEnaqE6P3MZ1GmIyUk6DNkPQ6wnI”] Why do Hindus have so many Scriptures? Most religions have one holy book. The Sikhs have the Adi Granth, Christians have the Bible (which is More...
Reflections on Bhakti- I: From ‘I am Yours’ to ‘I am You’
In his Soundaryalahari Verse 22, Sri Shankaracharya submits a very unique prayer to Goddess Bhavani. He says: भवानि त्वं दासे मयि वितर दृष्टिं सकरुणां इति More...
The memory of a lost civilization
Sri David Frawley once noted a highly anomalous paradox in Indian history. On the one hand, we had the largest Bronze Age civilization of the world. The Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization (SSC). It was many times larger More...
Text as Text, Text as Deity: Reconciling Textual Traditions with Devotion
Before going on to the essay proper, a number of points and clarifications should be noted by the reader: a. A disclaimer is in order. This article is written from the perspective of someone with a self-understanding More...
Book Review: Leadership Dharma by Raghu Ananthanarayanan
Leadership Dharma, Arjuna the Timeless Metaphor by Raghu Ananthanarayanan is available for purchase on Amazon. The morning sun was soft and beautiful as it lit up the garden. The birds were chirping excitedly, More...
Fundamentals of Rajaneeti: Vedic approach to Politics
To understand fundamentals of Vedic approach to politics – Rajaneeti – it’s important to understand five words in Sanskrit vis-à-vis Artha Sutras found in Kautilya’s Arthashastra, namely: Sukham, Dharma, More...
Immersing in Mahabharata: An interview with Raghu Ananthanarayanan
Raghu Ananthanarayanan is a management consultant, who has immersed himself deeply in the Indian tradition of Itihasa-Purana, especially in Mahabharata and its characters. He regularly conducts Mahabharata Immersion More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – IV: Was Indira Gandhi a Soviet Agent?
[contextly_sidebar id=”5XTV0Kq2F9EXRdFa3X8RXAUIEGhyCyaL”] In 2005, an otherwise dry academic book called The Mitrokhin Archive, about the activities of the KGB in Third World countries, created an unlikely More...