Meaning of India in Words of Raja Rao: Brief Life Sketch of a Novelist as Sadhaka
On the occasion of 108th anniversary of Raja Rao, one of India’s most illustrious English language writer, IndiaFacts presents “Meaning of India” in his words, written by his wife Susan Raja Rao. Raja More...
For the Love of Nature
This excerpt has been taken from Indian Culture and India’s Future, DK Printworld, New Delhi, 2011 A strongly marked aspect of that culture, and one that offers a rich field of investigation, is India’s ancient More...
Purvapaksa & Uttarapaksa: An illustration from Ādi Śaṅkara’s Gita Bhashyam
Prologue Bharatiyas appear to have regained their familiarity with the terms pūrvapakṣa and uttarapakṣa but I don’t think many of them would be aware of what was actually involved in this process. More...
A brief study of possession in Hinduism-I: Introduction
The English word possession and spirits when taken together have come to indicate a certain unfriendly, disturbing, yet exotic area of life whose detailed knowledge, though scanty or rare, is nevertheless peppered More...
From Darkness to Light
Deepavali or the festival of lights is one of the most important festival in Hindu tradition, with many important events, such as the slaying of Narakasura, returning of Rama and Sita to Ayodhya, Nachiketa’s immortal More...
Krishna and Narakasura: The Tale of Dharma Asserting Over Adharma
Naraka Chaturdashi, the fourteenth day of the darker fortnight of the month of Ashvayuja is celebrated as the day of Narakasura’s deliverance in the hands of Lord Krishna. As children, we have all heard of this More...
Pagan and Monotheistic Violence
[contextly_sidebar id=”BSeG8JZLATQzdDJEHhudgYVnspxd0Vmz”] This essay is a meditation on the second chapter of Jan Assmann’s Of God and Gods, titled ‘Seth the Iconoclast: Polytheism and the Language More...
Prana, desha, anna: the modes of spiritual agriculture-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”LAfrXRo01ZwQxlfXtjhVMrZR7jgPLOKF”] Taking the yajnas and the injunctions about “annadana” as pointers to the size of a society that placed demands upon agricultural production, More...
No Mr. Devdutt Pattanaik, Krishna was not a negligent father
This is a Rebuttal to Devdutt Pattanaik’s article published in Economic Times and subsequently in his website Devdutt.com titled ‘Children of the Great’ published in the category of applied-mythology and in More...
A Theory of Polytheism
This essay is based on the first chapter of the book Of God and Gods by Jan Assmann, titled ‘Understanding Polytheism’. Assmann begins with the very interesting comment that as yet there has been no valid coherent More...