Hanuman’s Strength is Awesomeness not Militancy

Hashtag #BajrangiTwitter is trending on Twitter, thanks to article in The Wire that talks of “militant Hinduism”. After this article was published, social media is seeing an upsurge of Hanuman Consciousness 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...

The Poetic Genius of Kalidasa

[contextly_sidebar id=”k25h4q0fgJWiAjGci9MuqW6EjH5VbAfH”] Kalidasa is known as the master of similes. The Sanskrit tradition has proclaimed him as upamAkAlidAsasya. The variety, depth and appropriateness More...

How to spot an Indian Intellectual

From a lecture by former JNU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Kapil Kapoor before the Indore-based India Inspires Foundation, I have to relate a particularly relevant part, viz. about our Indian “intellectuals”. More...