Rechurning Turbulent Waters of Mahabharata Studies: Removing Poison, Revealing Nectar
[contextly_sidebar id=”6C2ft0dboWfVALCadsOgL5mdBA37Uztt”] Two weeks back, I received several quizzical looks when people found out that I had traveled from New York to Delhi for a 4-day workshop on the More...
Red Dragon Claws Clasp Bhutan, Making India vulnerable
It is no secret that China has been asserting its dominance for the last 50 years on land, sea and even in space. Every one of its actions have been executed with machine like precision, its modus operandi being More...
China’s Oppression of Muslims – The Weak Link in the Sino-Islamic Alliance
India lives in a dangerous neighborhood. The two biggest threats to India’s security and civilizational integrity are from Islamic fundamentalism originating to its west and Chinese expansionism in the north and More...
Mahabharata as a manual of Advaita Vedanta
[contextly_sidebar id=”HNd2i4bMWNuun0iJ25Hfz2r2ltOWm0EL”]I recently attended a four-day workshop titled “The Mahabharata as Itihasa”, which was not only enlightening for its exposition of the Mahabharata, More...
Teaching And Research – The Rot That Has Set In
Recently HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar stoked a controversy by saying that college teachers and professors would no longer be ‘assessed on research for promotion’. He said that they would be assessed ‘mainly More...
Hierarchy of Rasa-s in Vyāsa’s Mahābhārata: Themes, Forms and Aesthetics
Is there a singular, supreme, overarching conclusion – superseding all others – which the composer(s)/compiler(s) of the ‘epic’ text of Mahābhārata (the one traditionally attributed to Vyāsa) had intended More...
Indian History in Perspective – 3 : How India Culturalized the World
[contextly_sidebar id=”hMH0TYXI2vzoZgmgYKpOcumlFEl9LJ7s”] In the previous part, we had discussed how Indians had civilized the world. We had talked about how the R1a1a haplogroup (a genetic marker), More...
The Story Of A Priest
[contextly_sidebar id=”Oge4EnFOJ3Y7LFWOkaT4jyReNuQEwM6E”] A Heritage Temple Prashant S. Bhardwaj is the head priest of the Veera Narayana Temple, Belavadi. The Veera Narayana Temple is dedicated to Veera More...
हिंदू मत में मासिक-धर्म की मान्यताएँ – पहला भाग: अशौच के रूप
[contextly_sidebar id=”kQe03fXgZ3dC6O0PpK2HAUNrvxlJQoVV”] The article has been translated from English by Avatans Kumar इसके पहले वाले लेख में हमने दुनियाँ More...
ધર્મ ઐતિહાસિક સીમાથી પર છે
[contextly_sidebar id=”Sxla0XFJY94pPSXy8FXqMBakgQBqjkMs”] The article has been translated from English by Udit Shah ખ્રિસ્તી, યહૂદી, ઈસ્લામ જેવા મોટા More...