Foundational Texts of Hinduism
[contextly_sidebar id=”0kRA9p0AseV0c8qQz9LfXdoj5KuqVt8f”] The foundational texts of Hinduism have, for centuries, been transmitted by means of an oral tradition – teachers taught this to their disciples, More...
Teaching Hinduism to your children
IndiaFacts is delighted to announce its monthly webinar. The following are the details of the webinar: Topic: Teaching Hinduism to your children Speaker: Aravind Rao Date: 21 April 2015 Time: 6:30 PM To join, click More...
History of Hindu Heroism: A brief chronicle
IndiaFacts columnist Manini has put together a compelling presentation chronicling the long history of Hindu heroism for IndiaFacts. Here’s how she describes the presentation: This is a quick chronicle of More...
India’s Daughter and Richard Dawkins’ Racism
The BBC documentary India’s Daughter announces that every 20 minutes a woman is raped in India. It characterizes Indian society as inherently patriarchal and misogynistic. We shouldn’t tolerate a single incident More...
Christians must embrace ghar wapsi
Preamble Leaving home and coming back to it defines human history in a nutshell, if one is alluding to the physical act of going home or away from it for whatever reasons. The going away (or taking one away) from More...
10 Excerpts from Sheldon Pollock’s interview to Tehelka
The following are excerpts from an interview that Sheldon Pollock, currently the head of the Murty Classical Library of India gave to Tehelka some time in 2011. Videos of the interview titled “Sheldon Pollock More...
Soul harvesting as an onsite-offshore business model
It is undeniable that the early successes of the Indian IT owed tremendously to what is now commonly known as the onsite-offshore business model. Here’s typically how the model works. Let us assume the client More...
How Evangelism made Andhra an economic, cultural and spiritual ruin
The first thing I wanted to do when I got a decent job was to connect to my native roots, basically a small village in the heart of Andhra Pradesh. These were the times when a Christian Y.S Rajashekhar Reddy (YSR) More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest:11 January-18 January 2015
1. Facing Intolerance, many Sikhs and Hindus leave Afghanistan Report: Rawail Singh, a leader of Kabul’s Sikh community stated that he worries that his tiny religious minority community could disappear entirely More...
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism: A Review
A major and long-awaited project has been brought to completion. The 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism, with a foreword by Dr. Karan Singh, is the brainchild of the India Heritage Research Foundation and Swami More...