Brahma’s Paradox
What is a paradox? According to Wikipedia, a paradox is “is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently-self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.” As More...
The Vedas and the Principal Upanishads – I
The Rig Veda summarises the chief purpose of Vedic knowledge thus: ‘Assemble together, speak with one voice, let your minds be all of one accord…. Let all priests deliberate in a common way. Common be their More...
India’s Cow Vigilantism: The other side of the story
Cow-related violence and lynching have been making the media headlines world over in the recent past, especially since the now 4-year old Modi government of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took office in 2014. What More...
Checkmating Christianity: What India Can Learn From Japan
The defining takeaway from the episode of thousands of infant children being sold by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity is that there is no love in the ‘Religion of Love’. Christianity has become a business More...
Dharma: An Intellectual History
Dharma is arguably the one word most commonly associated with Indic civilization. Few other Indian words are as readily associated with India as Dharma. Yoga and Karma probably come close to it. But what is Dharma? More...
Nehru and Dharma: A Case of Cultural Unease
Indians, as a Rule, are a Reserved People We Indians love to talk, don’t we? I think, if there is anything we like more than a cliffhanger of a cricket match, preferably involving India, it is a good conversation. More...
Gotras and Pravaras
Our ancient land of Bharata is the cradle of Sanatana Dharma. This is the land where humans are born in order to undergo the churning due to karma – to simultaneously enjoy the blessings of punya and exhaust paapa More...
The General Framework of Hinduism- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”wAAJrrN9VgO6S7oD2Z25Yq6NEJqs3aSh”] 3. The relevance of Hindu thought for modern society An important issue is whether the Hindu thought, with all its lofty ideals, is relevant More...
A Year with the Maha-Puranas
Why did Lord Shiva, at the instigation of Brahma, tease Parvati? Why do we not use the champak flower to worship Lord Shiva? In which purana would you learn about a prayer for Lord Vishnu to protect you in all four More...
AncientVoice: A Digital Portal to Veda-Itihāsa-Purānas
Abstract AncientVoice is an online portal containing 23,000 plus wikified pages on Mahābhārata, Rāmāyana, Ṛgveda, Yajurveda (both Kṛṣna and Sukla recensions), Sāmaveda, Atharvaveda and Vishnu Purāna. More...