Yogi Adityanath as CM: Can a Sannyasi take up Kshaatra role?
With Yogi Adityanath, Peethadishwar of Goraksha Peeth and a Sannyasi in the Nath Sampradaya taking over the political responsibility as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, some people have raised a concern regarding More...
Vairaagya and Sri Rama
The Valmiki Ramayana, for the most part, describes the Lord’s avatara as a human being who is a stickler for Dharma and a paragon of Vairaagya (renunciation). Rama’s inborn renunciation is well known and even More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be-1
Like the story of the proverbial blind men and the elephant, India’s cultural history too has many narratives. Each is different and given to fierce debate. Most of us hold on to one point of view without having More...
How castiest readings of Holi trivializes the festival
I must confess that with the current climate of distinct Hindu hatred, my expectations of peacefully celebrating my festivals were misplaced. This year, with a charged electoral climate, a decisive mandate and favourable More...
Book Review: Ushas, the Divine Dawn by Yogi Baba Prem
Ushas, the Divine Dawn: Awakening the human spirit and potential by Yogi Baba Prem can be purchased from here. Ushas, the Divine Dawn: Awakening the human spirit and potential by Yogi Baba Prem is a timely, encouraging, More...
What constitutes the idea of abuse of Yoga?
There is a system of “Yoga” wherein a woman lays down on a yoga mat without her bottom in a completely relaxed position, before a “trained person” who then massages her clitoris and other parts of vagina. 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...
Four women icons from India’s Dharmic tradition
Women’s day is a day of celebration of womanhood and of showing respect, love and appreciation towards all women. Western feminism has had its own trajectory, in its efforts to be free from Christian misogyny, More...
Nature in Indian and Western Traditions
This excerpt has been taken from Indian Culture and India’s Future, DK Printworld, New Delhi, 2011 I lived in the Nilgiri hills of western Tamil Nadu for over two decades, and as a beautiful tropical rainforest—a More...
ఉత్తమ సంస్కారానికి సాధనం భక్తి
సమాజంలో ఒకవైపు భక్తి విపరీతంగా పెరుగుతున్నా మరొకవైపు అశాంతి, అన్యాయం పెరుగుతున్నాయని More...