Hindu View of Menstruation- I: Menstruation as Ashaucha
[contextly_sidebar id=”z2IqVwKIXDaKKVWjrZ6aGpTSDD7yTInx”] In the previous article, an examination of the various menstruation practices prevalent among major religions and cultures across the world was More...
Countering the Idea of India camp: Insights from 19th Century Foreigners
Today, the mainstream dominant discourse on India and Indology revolves around what is known as “the idea of India”. Many books, academic papers and peer-reviewed articles have been written challenging the legitimacy More...
Ten things that define Adarsh-Liberal’s Idea of India
Ever since Narendra Modi’s government came to power in 2014, a bunch of intellectuals, liberals, seculars, and senior editors have been saying that the ‘Idea of India’ is under threat. No matter what happens, More...
(South) Asians? Who? Us? – Astitva and Asmita
It has been another typical fortnight. Whilst the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO successfully launched its first ever “Made in India” space shuttle, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV-TD), , scholars, More...
The Andronovo cradle of the Indo-Iranians?
In 2006, the late Russian archaeologist Elena Kuzmina wrote a hefty book on the Origin of the Indo-Iranians (Brill, Leiden). It gives a very detailed history of the Andronovo culture and its surroundings in time More...
Pakistani Travelogue-II: Pakistani Perceptions of India
[contextly_sidebar id=”hfSO3toJTSSxNwE5BxJ1HU7EJttBiDDT”] Gargantuan government edifices glittered behind freshly painted wrought-iron fences, glamorous palaces to Pakistani politics in marble and brass More...
Remembering Veer Savarkar
The late 19th century, was when India was awakening to its spiritual heritage, its pride of place among the nations of the world, during ancient times. People like Dayananda and Swami Vivekananda were spreading More...
California Textbook Controversy: ‘India’ not to be replaced with ‘South Asia’
Sacramento, California, May 20: In what may bring relief to hundreds of Indian American families of California, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) that met on Thursday to decide upon the final stages of More...
Can Governments ‘take over’ Administration of Hindu Religious Institutions? – VI
In the first five parts of the current series, I had discussed in some detail the fundamental rights of Hindu religious institutions under the Constitution and the State’s ability to limit them. In the last two More...
Indian Millennials Have a Healthy Sense of Indian Nationhood Mr. Patel
Indian Millennials have shed old-skin and have a healthy sense of Indian nationhood, whereas oped writers live in a world where some or the other old, hackneyed Marxist trope still rules the day. India is instinctively More...