Relishing the ‘Rasa’ of Bhaagavatham
Bengaluru, Karnataka: Srimad Bhaagavatham or Bhagavata Purana is one of the most prominent texts of Hindu tradition. It is said that Veda Vyasa, who divided the Vedas and wrote Mahabharata and other Puranas, did not feel fulfilled until he finally composed Bhagavata Purana. Hindu traditions, especially the Vaishnava traditions, hold Bhagavata Purana, More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”Bbhqaghf0GR3eKTNY7wybwC50tDymL5z”] Aryan and Dravidian It was Bishop Caldwell (1875) who suggested that the South Indian languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu formed More...
Sinhgad: The Astonishing Escalade of Tanaji and His 300 Marathas
On February 4, 1670 in a stunning act of daredevilry, 300 Maharashtrian soldiers led by Tanaji Malusare, one of the ablest commanders of Maratha king Shivaji, climbed the almost vertical rock face of the fort of More...
Shivaji: The Great Maratha- An excerpt
Editor’s Note: “Shivaji: The Great Maratha” chronicles the magnificent life and times of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in graphic detail. This epic text, originally written by Ranjit Desai in Marathi More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 1
As the science of language, historical linguistics in the early 19th century saw itself as providing a framework for studying the history and relationships of languages in the same manner as biology describes the More...
Granthis: The Psychic Knots and its depiction in sculptures
The temple complexes of India are adorned with sculptures of several themes related to social, political, cultural history incorporating the heritage values of vedas, yoga shastra, puranas epics, etc. Some sculptures More...
Terror Unlimited: The Staggering Loot and Lust of Alauddin Khilji
Until the arrival of Alauddin Khilji (1250-1316), no foreign ruler had looted southern India of its wealth which had accumulated for centuries. According to contemporary travellers like Marco Polo and historians More...
Book Review: Hinduism and Nature by Nanditha Krishna
Hinduism and Nature by Nanditha Krishna is available for purchase from amazon. Amidst globalization when we find monolithic religions dominating the world stage, for those looking from outside, Hinduism certainly More...
Srishti & Beyond: Hindu accounts of Creation, Evolution and Non-Origination
“Which is the beginning of life? When did creation start? Of the waves in the ocean, which is the first? What is the boundary for the wind’s constant blowing? Such is the story of the universe.” – More...
Remembering India’s forgotten holocaust
The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 must rank as the greatest disaster in the subcontinent in the 20th century. Nearly 4 million Indians died because of an artificial famine created by the British government, and yet it More...