Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”cehr5yAKWI4dX2h76yWEGL5QqxyDyCEZ”] In Part 1, I discussed the Indigenous and Ambedkar’s views of our culture and history. The Indigenous view covered how the sages viewed our More...
Snippets From Kurukshetra War In Mahabharata- I: Background Information
This three part article is a compilation of information on Kurukshetra war as mentioned in the Vyāsa Bhārata. The latter is considered a narrative of the events during the war since the author Sage Krishna Dwaipāyana More...
Why the notion of ‘Hindu Nation’ alone is chosen for criticism?
I sometimes wonder who influences whom: the Indian mainstream journalists influence the foreign correspondents or the other way round, as they always hold the same view. Or is there even a directive from the top More...
Revisiting Aryan issue: In Conversation with Shrikant Talageri
What is the Aryan Invasion Theory? What is the basic premise? What are the problems associated with this theory? Can there be another alternative? Kushal Mehra discusses this and some other related issues with Shrikant More...
మన సంస్కృతికి మనమే వారసులం
పురాణాల్ని చరిత్రగా వక్రీకరించి దేవతలంటే ఆర్యులనీ, రాక్షసులంటే శూద్రులనీ చెబుతూ More...
Exploring ancient theistic arguments from the Nyāyakusumāñjali- I
It is common knowledge that atheism isn’t a recent phenomenon. Centuries and millennia prior to our own births, men have questioned the necessity to include a supernatural as the basis of explaining their lives. 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...
Book Review: Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar
Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar, Chennai: Rare Publications, 2016. The book can be purchased from Amazon and Flipkart. Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar is a compact work (188 pp) comprising of independent More...
Search for Sita: An Adaptation of Select Passages from Kishkindha & Sundarakanda
One of the saddest things about our society today is how few of us go back to the original sources to read about Rama, Krishna and our other devatas from our Itihaasa (our civilization’s history) and the Puranas. More...
A Case for Cow-Protection without Whitewashing the Past
“Cow” is called “aghnya”- the inviolable, the one which should not be harmed or killed. Hindus perceive her as the mother who nourishes everyone, as the abode of all goodness, and the very embodiment of More...