Is Ramayana oppressive?
I In Rajiv Malhotra’s ‘The Battle for Sanskrit’, Sheldon Pollock’s views on Ramayana are critically analyzed. Here, in this article, I wish to give my own critical views regarding some of Sheldon Pollock’s More...
बौद्ध और वैदिक परंपरा का पारस्परिक संबंध
प्रस्तावना तथा भूमिका : भारतवर्ष एक ऐसी भूमि रही है जिसने सदियों से कई महान विचारों More...
Reconstructing The History Of The Ājīvikas
[contextly_sidebar id=”9ESt2LWLO1vg0xiGMne81qYY36gAmpVD”] In my previous articles “A new dating of Mahāvīra based on Mālava era” and “A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra”, More...
No Mr Devdutt Pattanaik, Patriarchy did not rise due to hermits!
The popular model of a patriarch is derived from the Abrahamic mythology. Hence the patriarch is a serial rapist. Jehovah the God of Abraham sure demands absolute submission. I can agree with Devadut Pattanaik (DP) More...
A new dating of Mahāvīra based on Mālava era
[contextly_sidebar id=”MNg7NBYGh0xSiUlkwaZ40o8dJFuGyweU”] In my previous article “A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra”, I presented my reasoning for the dating of Buddha More...
A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra
In my previous articles, I presented evidence to show that the currently accepted version of Indian history is deeply flawed due to wrong identifications of the two sheet anchors that have been used to fix Indian More...
Force-fitting of evidence in the making of Indian History
[contextly_sidebar id=”MeQgZsKrCgseToJ6312PIMIko2A4BSGL”] In the previous article, “Flawed Sheet Anchors of Indian History”, I discussed the implications of shifting the reign of the Imperial Guptas More...
Did the Buddha Break Away from Hinduism?
This was published in Hindu Human Rights, on 10 August 2013, and in Sutra Journal, October, 2015. Orientalists have started treating Buddhism as a separate religion because they discovered it outside India, without More...
The Hindu View on Freedom of Expression and Public Discourse
This essay was jointly authored by Hari Ravikumar. For a moment, just try to visualize the kind of public debates that happen today, on television, in the newspapers, and in person. In the light of these images More...
The Buddha was every Inch a Hindu
Orientalists had started treating Buddhism as a separate religion because they discovered it outside India, without any conspicuous link with India, where Buddhism was not in evidence. At first, they didn’t even More...