Shankara Jayanti Special: Five Lessons from Sadhana Panchakam
Adi Shankaracharya is one of the most outstanding personalities that India has produced in last few thousand years. He was a teacher, scholar, poet, saint, philosopher, yogi, bhakta, tantrika, a jivanmukta, and More...
Can Governments ‘take over’ Administration of Hindu Religious Institutions? – VI
In the first five parts of the current series, I had discussed in some detail the fundamental rights of Hindu religious institutions under the Constitution and the State’s ability to limit them. In the last two More...
Lords Of The Lies
The oldest and the largest democracies in the world have a strange relationship. No sooner does anyone think that there could be a fruitful partnership between equals, the old bogey of the White Man’s Burden rears More...
Science, Secularism and Saturn
Rationality is an extremely useful state of mind. Alas, it is not the only state of mind. Somewhere between rational enquiry and irrational mumbo-jumbo lies the non-rational world of art, poetry, music, mythology More...
Essential Facts of Sanatana Dharma
Sometimes people ask what Hinduism is, and how it compares with the other religious/spiritual traditions of the world. Most of the time Hindus find it difficult to provide simple and cogent answers to such questions, More...
Hinduism and Caste: A Counter Narrative
The media and academic narrative today presents Hindu civilization as a negation of 21st century egalitarian norms. While elements of this description are not entirely incorrect given the hierarchy and exclusion More...
Hindus Are The Last Of The Pagans
Such are examples for us pagans of the gospel of the New Testament. We are all dogs, murderers, sorcerers, idolaters, liars – all synonyms for devil-worshippers, to be slain if we do not believe in Jesus. The More...
It is High Time that Hindus Woke Up
Some time ago, a news item caught my attention: Dalit Christians had filed a complaint with the United Nations against the Vatican because of caste based discrimination of the Catholic Church in India. The complaint 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...
Should Temple Gold Be Utilised For Government’s Gold Monetisation Schemes?
Ashish C has written an essay on OpIndia laying out the economic benefits of the monetisation of Temple Gold. I see this decision as being wrong in two areas- dharmic and political-economic. The temple has been More...