Bahubali’s Mahishmati: A glimpse into magnificent architecture of ancient India
People who have watched the Bahubali movie are mesmerized by the grandeur depicted in every scene. The design of Mahishmati is out of the world and is beyond anything that we see around us and can imagine. It surpasses the beauty of any aesthetically designed building that we commonly see in the cities. The palaces shown are of exquisite beauty and More...
Aryan Invasion Myth: How 21st Century Science Debunks 19th Century Indology
The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) needs no introduction. It is the bedrock upon which Indian history has been written. Its central thesis has three main components: India’s original inhabitants were “dark-skinned” More...
Sensible Cinema and Natyashastra
Last few days, cinema lovers have been reading Bahubali 2 movie reviews one after the other. There are few other reasons listed, but most reviews are about this: Bahubali fan reviews are about unapologetic and fantastic More...
India’s Export of Yoga – Import of Fundamentalism and Terrorism
India’s balance of trade in terms of religion and spirituality is quite interesting and worthy of note. I am not speaking of economics here but the trade of ideologies and belief systems. While India exports its More...
Need for India’s Spirituality- revisiting Sri Aurobindo’s vision
In pursuing an English private school education in 90’s urban India, one thing that was quite natural for a student like me, was developing a sense of admiration for Western thought, culture and way of life. In More...
Marathas and Bundelkhand – IV: Jhansi ki Rani
[contextly_sidebar id=”jHwjP0qNPKAcz4HqQhCHO7EeJPcbtjUg”] Chamak uthi san sattavan mein, yeh talwar purani thi, Bundeley Harbolon key munh hamney suni kahani thi, Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali More...
Snippets From Kurukshetra War In Mahabharata- I: Background Information
This three part article is a compilation of information on Kurukshetra war as mentioned in the Vyāsa Bhārata. The latter is considered a narrative of the events during the war since the author Sage Krishna Dwaipāyana More...
Exploring ancient theistic arguments from the Nyāyakusumāñjali- I
It is common knowledge that atheism isn’t a recent phenomenon. Centuries and millennia prior to our own births, men have questioned the necessity to include a supernatural as the basis of explaining their lives. More...
The Chinese self-designation Hua and the root-word Ᾱrya
It is but rare that I take the trouble to write a mere summary of a paper I have read with increasing enthusiasm. Here is one occasion. It pertains to “The earliest Chinese words for ‘the Chinese’: the phonology, More...
Book Review: Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar
Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar, Chennai: Rare Publications, 2016. The book can be purchased from Amazon and Flipkart. Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar is a compact work (188 pp) comprising of independent More...