Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 3
[contextly_sidebar id=”koFpYmrzoIYZXytaojq0EHPU7PdjP0EW”] Clash of Civilizations The now-fashionable expression “clash of civilizations” was already in use in India well before Samuel Huntington gave it currency in the West. Girilal Jain, for one, already used it in his analysis of the Ayodhya crisis in 1988-92. Sita Ram Goel wasn’t More...
Essential Facts of Sanatana Dharma
Sometimes people ask what Hinduism is, and how it compares with the other religious/spiritual traditions of the world. Most of the time Hindus find it difficult to provide simple and cogent answers to such questions, More...
Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”olbXYE1WqBTzVkaEX7UySfYkkAUOwQqQ”] His Kindness Secularists like to bandy about the hateful stereotype of Hindu revivalists as anti-Muslim and anti-Christian hate-mongers. The More...
Recollections with Sita Ram Goel: Part 1
This is the first part of the author’s essay in a volume he has edited: India’s Only Communalist. In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel, Voice of India, Delhi 2005. Now that the trail-blazing Hindu publisher and More...
Excavations Show the Cultural Continuity of the Vedic Harappans
Nonagenarian archaeologist B.B.Lal has synthesized his findings of the latest decades in the book The Rigvedic People: Invaders/Immigrants or Indigenous (Aryan Books, Delhi 2015). In it, he seeks to answer three More...
Hinduism is the Last Hope for World Peace
Intolerance has been in the news these past several months, from a pontificating president who bowed to religious despots in their backyard the very day after lecturing the democratic unwashed untermensche of India More...
On The Contributions Of Goswami Tulsidas
This essay was contributed by Krishan Saxena, an academician based in the United States. Goswami Tulsidas composed his magnum opus, Sri Ramacharitamanasa, in Avadhi – a dialect of Hindi. Popularly known More...
Elephant in the Room – Glimpses from the past
[contextly_sidebar id=”mfv3p7ucr5GM6CqlfReHEGPO8TDuZeua”] Mātangalīla, the magnum opus by Nīlakanta dates back a few centuries, Malayalam Era (Kollavarsham) 761 according to the interpretation of More...
Hinduism and Caste: A Counter Narrative
The media and academic narrative today presents Hindu civilization as a negation of 21st century egalitarian norms. While elements of this description are not entirely incorrect given the hierarchy and exclusion More...
The Maratha Military Genius: The Battle of Palkhed
Among the notable battles fought in India, the Battle of Palkhed, between Peswha Baji Rao I and the Nizam-ul-Mulk, would not readily spring to mind for many. Which is a pity, for several reasons. While the three More...