Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business More...
The Concept of Ābhāsa in the Yogavāsiṣṭha – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”UlyKsjwAFnnGUQk9DQrBro0r0eLhljI5″] Ābhāsa in the Mokṣopāyaśāstra/Yogavāsiṣṭha[1] The illusory nature of ābhāsa is consistently found in both Buddhist sources and More...
The Concept of Ābhāsa in the Yogavāsiṣṭha – 1
Studying classical Indian philosophy poses multiple challenges. One of them is the shift in the meaning of terms at different times, and another is the application of the same term with a different intent in different More...
Hinduism: Issues and discrimination
In March 2018, the then Congress government in Karnataka, prior to Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, declared Lingayat community as a separate religion from Hindu religion, a move widely seen as a plot More...
History, Textbooks and Distortion
Vedic era and Vedic society The most ancient literary evidence in Indian history is the Veda. The ancient archaeological sites are that of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Unanimously all history textbooks tell that both More...
Genius of the Jains
[contextly_sidebar id=”sRDJUZQANeCN55doIbJM0F9BfxGKSchJ”] In my previous articles “Reconstructing the History of the Ājīvikas” and “Materialism in ancient India”, we discussed the intellectual More...
Tibet – Land of Lamas & Lament
Some lands live more in imagination and fabled lore than on the physical planes of Earth, have more reality in their legends and mystical mysteries than in the dry pages of history and geography, exude such great More...
बौद्ध और वैदिक परंपरा का पारस्परिक संबंध
प्रस्तावना तथा भूमिका : भारतवर्ष एक ऐसी भूमि रही है जिसने सदियों से कई महान विचारों More...
Book Review: Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob De Roover
Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism (Religion and Democracy), Jakob De Roover, 296 Pages, Oxford University Press (14 September 2015). Two years ago, on one fine afternoon, I happened to run into a congregation More...
Materialism in Ancient India
[contextly_sidebar id=”7fCRjNZCtewefwnXlo0RF9QgI1uvgRY9″] In my previous article “Reconstructing the History of the Ājīvikas”, I discussed the life of Makkhali Gosāla. He was the most prominent More...