Decoding Wendy Doniger’s Hinduism book: 1
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a scholarly critique of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History published in 2009. This book published by Penguin was withdrawn by the publisher More...
Interreligious dialogue: smokescreen or real utility?
Interreligious dialogue is very fashionable these days. But what achievements does it have to show? Interreligious meetings are ten a penny nowadays. It is obviously better for people to spend their time talking More...
Open Letter to Pope Francis
Respected Holy Father, Great hope for a positive change in the Catholic Church is pinned on the Pontificate of your Holiness and recent statements indicate that this hope may not be misplaced. The future, your Holiness More...
Vijay Prashad: secular distortionist par excellence
A Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, Vijay Prashad, commented on the India-based French journalist François Gautier. He wrote “Hindu Holocaust?”, published on www.newsindia-times.com More...
The Buddha was every Inch a Hindu
Orientalists had started treating Buddhism as a separate religion because they discovered it outside India, without any conspicuous link with India, where Buddhism was not in evidence. At first, they didn’t even More...
Why Hindu Dharma is the Best
Occasionally I noticed that in western publications Hinduism was missing when religions were listed. Buddhism was there without fail, but its mother so to speak, was being ignored. What could be the reason? About More...
The Need for a Kshatriya Mindset: Part 2
Read Part 1. We must all meditate on the image of Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield, because this promotes something that is sorely needed in our community today, a Kshatriya mindset: that is, the proper values More...
The Need for a Kshatriya Mindset: Part 1
When you think about Krishna’s life, it is full of difficult moments that for most ordinary people would have led to a life full of suffering and disappointment. And even after his life’s work is done, Krishna More...
Tracing India’s Constitutional History: Part 2
In the last part, we understood that Dharma was the supreme authority and even the king was subservient to the dictates of Dharma. However, in most circumstances, the king did not have any legislative powers and More...
What will the World Think of India?
The panel discussions in the English news channels in India are amazing. It keeps amazing me how panelists manage to reply at length to a straight forward question without giving an answer. Usually, the anchor shifts More...