Spirituality as India’s Soft Power
Spirituality is in all likelihood India’s most important soft power because it gives answers to the basic questions of human beings regarding the meaning of life, and most importantly, who we essentially are. More...
The Rāma Story and Sanskrit in Ancient Xinjiang
Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of More...
Lessons from India’s wars: Hindus need a new Dharma Yuddha
One of the earliest recorded attacks on India was by queen Semiramis, (1) who ruled the Assyrian Empire during the years 811-806 BCE – or nearly 500 years before the invasion of Alexander of Macedon. According More...
Kama and Indic Society
The Hindu view of life is ordered by varna-ashrama dharma and the purusharthas, the four goals of human life. The first gives the context of the community, the second of the stage of life and the third of what the More...
Why do Indian Writers Love an Ugly India?
In pre-independence times, American author Katherine Mayo happened to visit India and wrote uncharitably about the country, particularly about the unhygienic surroundings in her book Mother India. When Mahatma Gandhi More...
India’s Unique Place in the World of Numbers and Numerals – I
This article was intended to be purely informative, and to serve no purpose other than pointing out three uniquely special features of Indian numbers and numerals. But, inevitably, I found one more strong piece More...
Built Bharat: the Modern Derangement
The India of the 1960s and 1970s which, as was often repeated in public discourse, concentrated mostly in its villages, was already looking to its big cities for inspiration and guidance in matters of style and 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...
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...
How old is Indian agriculture?
It is common knowledge now that food production in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent began with the Mehrgarh Neolithic in the early 7th millennium BCE. What is less known is that there were many independent More...