On the Chronological Framework for Indian Culture- 1
Introduction It has been more than a decade that Indologists started voicing the need for a radical reexamination of the ideological premises on which early Indian historiography has been based. It was to satisfy this need that several departments of the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas organized on September 19, 1998 a day-long More...
Book Review: Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples by Meenakshi Jain
Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History by Meenakshi Jain. Aryan Book International, New Delhi. Rs. 690/- If stones could speak, the story of Indian temples and deities would have More...
Journalist Attempts to Revive Aryan Invasion Myth Using Discredited Genetic Research
Tony Joseph, a former business journalist, has published a new book titled “Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From” [1]. Joseph is a vociferous advocate of the Aryan Invasion Theory More...
Death in Indic Thought – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”DIBFrNQ9qF2kfIEVJ2EZ76gYGod8BZrw”] Death, like most other profound phenomena in life, cannot be fully understood unless experienced at close quarters. My own first intimate encounter More...
Ancient updates to Sūrya-siddhānta
Indian astronomy is original in its conception and is ancient. Indian astronomy book such as Sūrya-siddhānta is well known, most referred and most esteemed. While no one knows for sure how old Sūrya-siddhānta More...
1st International Orientation program on Gurukul Education System held in Gandhinagar
The past couple of years have seen considerable analysis and debate on the current system of education in India. Popularly known as “Macaulay’s Minute Model”, the approach and pedagogy of today’s schooling More...
The real significance of the cāturvarṇya
It is only by delving deeper into original texts of shruti and smṛti that one can arrive at a better and fuller understanding of Vedic truths. In this column I examine the source of cāturvarṇya, one of the More...
The Geographical Data in the Mahābhārata – 3
The Travel Narratives: The Emergence of Bhārata as a Union Travel Narratives connects one place with another revealing the travel networks crisscrossing Bhāratavarsha. This shows how different parts of Bhāratavarsha More...
The Geographical Data in the Mahābhārata – 2
Geographical data beyond Jaya in the Mahābhārata When we analyze the geographical data in the whole of Mahābhārata beyond the Jaya portion, we will be able to find out the data distribution in each book (Parva) More...
The Geographical Data in the Mahābhārata – 1
Mahābhārata begins with this introductory verse with the following meaning: – Having bowed down to Narayana and Nara, the best among men, and also to the goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya be uttered. More...