Judicial Traditions and Processes in Hinduism: An Overview
Authored by Judge C. G. Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice and former judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. This was first published in Sunday Times, Sri Lanka. Hinduism has one of the oldest of legal systems and from its very earliest days has generated an enormous volume of sacred and scholarly literature. More...
The Song Of Krishna By Aditi Banerjee
Today heralds the global celebrations on the auspicious occasion of Vaikuntha Ekadasi and also Gita Jayanti— the day on which the Bhagavad Gita was expounded by Sri Krishna to Arjuna. The Gita has an exalted More...
Do The Hindus Have 33 Crore Gods?
Quite often we discuss among ourselves, with a slight tone of self-mockery, that we Hindus have thirty-three crore (330 million) gods. We think we have such a surfeit of gods that we do not mind accepting anything More...
The Abrahamic God
An excerpt from Michel Danino’s book “Indian Culture and India’s Future”. [contextly_sidebar id=”Y9JTbHQzbXyt0KD3rkFI62cXKsU8SjvP”] Our first task therefore is to examine the More...
Book Review -Being Hindu : Old Faith, New World and You
A thought-provoking and breezy account. Hindol hits the right points and notes. Informs and provokes in equal measure. Add this one to your year-end holiday reading list. Being Hindu can be an amalgamation of many More...
A Postscript To The World Of Varṇa
(Co-authored by Hari Ravikumar) Based on some of the feedback we received for our article on varṇa, we felt that it would be valuable to bring out a few more insights into the idea of varṇa and share some more More...
Beyond Right and Left: Restoring India’s Dharmic School of Social Thought
India needs to return to its traditional dharmic approach to political thought in order to take the country out of the quagmire created by following western political ideologies contrary to its deeper civilizational More...
Rites And Responsibilities In A Time of Endless War
Last Sunday afternoon, I caressed, massaged, and washed the cracked feet of a man who was born in 1860. I washed his feet, and that of his son’s, and that of his son’s son, my father. I washed their feet, sprinkled More...
The Indian Tradition of Growing and Sharing Food: A Lost Tradition
[contextly_sidebar id=”Pcsp1CjXbXbGTVwCsVcZqnyHCt9DShEk”] India it seems continued to follow this discipline till almost the present times. Texts of all ages from different parts of India emphasize the More...
The Indian Tradition Of Growing And Sharing Food: Annam Bahukurvita
This article is based on a book by the authors entitled Annam Bahu Kurvita: Recollecting the Indian Discipline of Growing and Sharing of Food in Plenty, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, Madras. Detailed More...