Temples and the State in the Indian Tradition
The second part of the series on Hindu Temples, their conception, history, heritage and legacy authored by M.D. Srinivas. [contextly_sidebar id=”v2jfBCeWdvzl1KSZqmbtexmsOWV4u55h”] Kings were the premier More...
Temples and the State in India: A Historical Overview
This is the first of a new comprehensive series on Hindu Temples, their conception, history, heritage and legacy authored by M.D. Srinivas. Introduction India indeed is a land of temples. Indian civilisation More...
Integral Humanism of Deendayal Upadhyaya
It is a testament to Deendayal Upadhyaya’s foresight that much of what he suggested fifty years ago may seem unsurprising to many since it is now part of the established discourse of Hindutva. His four lectures More...
Rearming Hinduism: Book Review
Rearming Hinduism: Nature, Hinduphobia and the Return of Indian Intelligence Paperback, by Vamsee Juluri He who controls the history of a people controls the people. Colonization of the land is easier to More...
The Hindu View on Food and Drink
Co-authored by Hari Ravikumar In 2007, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations conducted a survey of meat consumption per person in every country. India came last. Food: Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Further, More...
The Pantheon of the Indian Saura Tradition
The Indian Saura-mata (or the Hindu sect of the Sun) is an amalgam of two distinct layers [ 1]: 1) The endogenous layer of solar deities going back to the Veda and 2) The neo-morphic layer of Iranic origin which More...
Musings of a Hindu Savage
I am a Hindu savage. And I need to be civilised. My friends would have you believe so. A recent conversation with a high school friend of mine on Hinduism reminded me of a scene from the 80s movie, Crocodile Dundee. Dundee More...
The Hindu View on Freedom of Expression and Public Discourse
This essay was jointly authored by Hari Ravikumar. For a moment, just try to visualize the kind of public debates that happen today, on television, in the newspapers, and in person. In the light of these images More...
The Realm of Indra
Indra is the Indo-Aryan version of the preeminent deity of the ancestral Indo-European pantheon. In the Vedic texts, we see remnants of what might have been an ancient tripartition of this deity, as manifest on More...
Historical Hindu Responses to Abrahamism
The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus were among the early victims of the second Abrahamism in the holy war More...