Language and Discourse: Why the issue is not merely about Sanskrit or English
With the rapid spread of English in India, most Indians are worried about the future of Indian languages, especially Sanskrit. It is also observed that learning is less efficient when conducted through a foreign More...
Demystifying Tantra- V: Magic, Sex, Distortions and Divinity
[contextly_sidebar id=”VTQP6QXHqVB0mB8seDdStuXrlAXRofrG”] Earlier we have discussed the classification of tantric texts to help us make sense of the huge diversity of traditions. We have covered the More...
How India went from World’s Education Capital to Depths of Illiteracy –I
When Tagore started an open-air school at Shantiniketan in 1901, which later went on to become a famous university, he was one in a long line of educators from India, who believed that holistic learning could only More...
British Colonization of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”wEVBLzBXoa3hurMR7L5LSVpfJrh3UOe7″] One of the main reasons for the Europeans to sail the oceans was to find new trade routes to Asia, especially, to India. The adventure was inevitable More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives – Part II
[contextly_sidebar id=”pcsGYY4n1eiDOKiDgjpmeJdoT1KUTsE1″] While Pakistan struggles towards its goal of achieving a homogenous monoculture with Islamism at its core, India has struggled equally to define 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...
राशबिहारी बोस: जापान में भारत के संदेशवाहक
The article has been translated into Hindi by Avatans Kumar डाक्टर भगवान सिंह ज्ञानी (प्रीतम) क्रांतिकारी ग़दर पार्टी More...
Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India on 26 October 1947, Period.
Quite often when a product has shortcomings, its manufacturer resorts to deceptive marketing. It creates a smoke screen over the product’s limitations and marketing managers take it further by confusing and corrupting More...
Atrocity Literature: A Western Recipe to dismantle India and Hinduism
In 1927, Katherine Mayo wrote a viciously anti-India and anti-Hindu book “Mother India”, which portrayed Hindu society as uncivilized, barbaric and oppressive towards women and children by cherry picking incidents More...
Pakistan’s Zero Sum Game – Some Historical Perspectives-1
Pakistan and India fought the first Kashmir war between October 1947 and December 1948. At the time of independence, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was independently ruled by Maharaja Hari Singh, of the More...