Wonders, Mysteries and Misconceptions in Indian Astronomy – I
Most Readers are aware that the Indian civilization is among the oldest in the world, if not actually THE oldest. They are also aware that Indian astronomy shares and reflects the age and maturity of its civilization. And More...
Caste 101 and the curious case of the Left-Liberal
Sample this: Suresh (SC) enters a work space where a number of women are working. The women are a mixture of Paraiyars (SCs), Gounders (BCs) and Mudaliars (FCs). Note also that all these women are sitting together More...
Indian Astronomy and the Yavanajātaka Date Fabrication
Most students of history have probably not heard of the question of the dating of the Yavanajātaka even though it is a significant milestone in the history of Indian science, and it has lessons both for the More...
As a Swing State, India must go with the West this time
Shortly after India’s independence in 1947, the United States started wooing the country’s leadership. Almost simultaneously, the USSR began its overtures to Pakistan. The reasons were strategic. While the Americans More...
Reimagining Education in New India
The huge middleclass India of today is not satisfied with a fractured idea of India, an India whose past is inglorious, an India which has to negate its core values to accommodate the sensitivities of minority communities. More...
The Case for Truth and Reconciliation Commission of India
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show More...
The Ancient Observatories of India- I
In 1988, the historian of science William H. Donahue published his article “Kepler’s fabricated figures: covering up the mess in the New Astronomy” in the Journal of the History of Astronomy. He More...
The unravelling of India
“Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism” Sri Aurobindo Introduction Countries and empires More...
Bharat- Is there any unifying factor of this nation?
Ever since I came to Canada in 2017, my longing for Bharat increased multifold. I am not sure of the reason. I am not sure if it was the harsh Toronto weather or initial struggle to survive without a regular job More...
Foot bridges as keys to some village futures
Editor’s Note: Girish Bharadwaj was awarded Padma Shri in 2017 Frequently, when we despair of where India is at the moment we do one of these three things: first we turn on the Government and critique it More...