Śrīharṣa on Knowledge and Justification – 3
Nāgārjuna and Śrīharṣa on Dialectical Closure If philosophical debate is a game, it is not free from manipulation. The parties involved do not come with just their positions but also with the rules that can More...
Śrīharṣa on Knowledge and Justification – 2
Śrīharṣa on the Scope of Reasoning With regard to the establishment of categories, a generally agreed-upon maxim is that ‘validity of something can be established [P1] not by a mere proposition but by [P2a] More...
Śrīharṣa on Knowledge and Justification – 1
In this paper I explore the extent to which the dialectical approach of Śrīharṣa can be identified as skeptical, and whether or how his approach resembles that of the first century Mādhyamika philosopher Nāgārjuna. More...
Contribution of Indian Philosophers to Mnemonics
Mnemonics is a learning technique that aids information retention in the human memory. Mnemonics make use of elaborate encoding, retrieval cues, and imagery as specific tools to encode any given information in a More...
Book Review: Natural Enmity, by Ashay Naik
The book “Natural Enmity- Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Panchatantra [Book 1]” by Ashay Naik is available for purchase from Amazon. Ashay Naik’s book, “Natural Enmity – Reflections More...
Is Hindu Dharma good and Hindutva bad?
My article “When Germany is Christian, is India Hindu?” got amazingly good response with thousands of Facebook likes. However, some readers felt I made a mistake by not distinguishing between good, tolerant More...
The Buddha was every Inch a Hindu
Orientalists had started treating Buddhism as a separate religion because they discovered it outside India, without any conspicuous link with India, where Buddhism was not in evidence. At first, they didn’t even More...
The Need for a Kshatriya Mindset: Part 1
When you think about Krishna’s life, it is full of difficult moments that for most ordinary people would have led to a life full of suffering and disappointment. And even after his life’s work is done, Krishna More...