Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Numbers Don’t Lie
[contextly_sidebar id=”CtlbqfVD2njARe6J7u2rYBPdUrsRRT4n”] Numbers Kosambi goes on to question the veracity of the Mahabharata’s claim on the numbers: “If a Mahabharata war had actually been fought More...
The Song Of Krishna By Aditi Banerjee
Today heralds the global celebrations on the auspicious occasion of Vaikuntha Ekadasi and also Gita Jayanti— the day on which the Bhagavad Gita was expounded by Sri Krishna to Arjuna. The Gita has an exalted More...
The Abrahamic God
An excerpt from Michel Danino’s book “Indian Culture and India’s Future”. [contextly_sidebar id=”Y9JTbHQzbXyt0KD3rkFI62cXKsU8SjvP”] Our first task therefore is to examine the More...
Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Myth and Reality
This is the first part of a series deconstructing Marxist historian and scholar D D Kosambi’s work, “Myth and Reality.” In 1962, the Marxist historian D D Kosambi published a work titled Myth and Reality: More...
Vedanta sees clash of Values,not Civilizations
‘Vedanta sees no conflict between material needs and spiritualitybut a balance between the two. What it sees is a clash of values rather than a clash of civilizations. This can be useful for understanding More...
World Hindu Conference 2014: A monumental achievement and a civilizational awakening
The World Hindu Conference (WHC) was held from 21-23 Novemeber at Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi, Bharata. It was a great achievement indeed for Swami Vigyananand of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to gather 1800 delegates More...
Wendy Doniger’s ignorance of the Bhagavad Gita
(This was sent in by an IndiaFacts reader, Hari Ravikumar.) Wendy Doniger’s review of Richard H. Davis’s “The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography” (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/04/war-and-peace-bhagavad-gita/) More...
Yoga for Corporates
The title seems to be fitting for this piece from OZY which speaks of a growing trend among Silicon Valley executives getting ‘Yoga’ lessons to reduce their stress level. But if one goes through the article More...
The Need for a Kshatriya Mindset: Part 3
Read Parts 1 | 2 Dharmakshetra It is worth examining the last verse of the Bhagavad Gita. The first word of this verse is “Yatra,” which means “where” or “the place where.” What is this place where More...