Women In Indian history: A Few Vignettes From Epigraphy
The author would like to thank Nicole Elfi for her assistance in researching and compiling the inscriptions mentioned in this article. Indian civilization and culture, many-faceted and infinitely involved by nature, More...
India before the British Conquest
India is a living civilization. No other nation has a continuance of philosophies, rituals, cultures and traditions in the manner in which India has it. Even after thousands of years, of which there were centuries More...
Demystifying Tantra-IV: Shakta tantras, Kaula tantras, Mantrashastra and Nibandhas
[contextly_sidebar id=”FuK9o27OYL3qGG4wIfNakWo3W2dMil45″] In the previous article, we had started an exercise of classifying tantric texts to help us make sense of the diversity of traditions, and to More...
The MFN Trade Clause is a Conundrum Confounded
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi heeds to India Inc’s view, he will drop the thought of any kind of retort to Pakistan for refusing to reciprocate India’s gesture of giving that terrorist country, the MFN (Most More...
Hygiene in Ancient India as in Ganeśa Purāṇa
Hygiene is a very important part of life as it keeps each one of us healthy both physically and mentally. Some people have a tendency to believe that modern man knows best, and that our ancestors were unaware of More...
Why Russia-Pakistan ties should not vex India
How’s this for timing? On September 23, as many as 250 troops from the Indian Army’s Kumaon Regiment arrived in Vladivostok for INDRA-2016, an 11-day joint exercise with an equal number of Russian Army troops. More...
Why Pakistan is able to Raise the K-Rant Again & Again
Nawaz Sharif’s speech at the UN General Assembly on 21st September of 2016 would have been foolish and laughable for any Prime Minister. It certainly tickled those Indians, who are familiar with what Pakistan More...
Nari – an exploration in ancient etymology
“यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः” A very famous sentence from Manusmṛti (3/56) . Though it has been always difficult More...
Perception about Kashmir unrest is the handiwork of spin doctors
Oftentimes perceptions are contrary to the truths. This happens, when systematic efforts are made to create a smokescreen to hide the real picture and then dole out camouflage as reality. Nowhere is this more visible More...
Understanding Modi’s Sanskrit Epithets – Part II
Have you noticed that Modi’s speeches are sprinkled with many phrases that are not in Hindi? Here is an occasion, worth watching, where he quoted several verses in succession, as his Idea of India, like “Tena More...