The Big Scandal of Indology
Imagine this: While traveling through a foreign land, you find an announcement of a public lecture about your country at your hotel. Being free that afternoon and feeling nostalgic for home, you and your spouse More...
Reconceptualizing India Studies by S N Balagangadhara: Rethinking of Indian Colonial Narratives- IV
In the last chapters, SN Balagangadhara takes up the extremely vital contemporary issue of secularism in the Indian context. By taking the example of religious conversion, he shows the amount of stress the state More...
Indology after Rakhigarhi: How DNA is demolishing the Aryan Invasion Theory
An entire industry that has dealt in scientific racism is on the verge of entering the dustbin of history. The genetic analysis of a 4,500 year old skeleton that belonged to a woman from Rakhigarhi, the largest More...
Interview with Sri. Shrikant Talageri on his new book ‘Genetics & The Aryan Debate’
The Aryan question continues to remain highly controversial and multidimensional in nature. India’s mainstream media and academia, which are dominated by the left-liberal-secular brigade have been misleading More...
On the Chronological Framework for Indian Culture- 1
Introduction It has been more than a decade that Indologists started voicing the need for a radical reexamination of the ideological premises on which early Indian historiography has been based. It was to satisfy More...
Indology and the Crisis in the Humanities
Together with their first book, The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (2014), Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism presents a comprehensive indictment of the dominant tendency More...
Book Review: The Nay Science by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
The Nay Science by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee can be purchased from Amazon. In our growing years, elders waxed eloquent on the Germans enthusiastically learning Sanskrit and our scriptures while we shamelessly More...
Mahabharata & Modern Scholarship: An Interview With Dr. Vishwa Adluri
Mahabharata is one of the foundational texts of Indian civilization. Along with Ramayana, it has transformed high abstract philosophies of the Upanishads into an aesthetically appealing literary work which has touched More...
Book Review – The Battle for Sanskrit by Rajiv Malhotra
Can Sanskrit be used to undermine Sanskriti? If we believe Rajiv Malhotra, it may already be underway. In his recent book, The Battle For Sanskrit, Malhotra raises questions that are critical for Sanskrit, the ancient More...
The World of Wendy Doniger’s Translations
“Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual was someone who had found something more interesting than sex; in Indology, an intellectual need not make that choice at all.” – Wendy Doniger, When the Lingam More...