The West and East Meet Only to Demonize the Hindu
Awards being returned, and of such acts planned and simply announced by the returnees on the national news media, reminds me of the Ramana Mahirshi-inspired Paul Brunton’s writing about artists and writers and More...
India Inspires Talks- Indian Civilization
IndiaFacts Research Centre is delighted to announce that that India Inspires Foundation (www.indiainspires.org) is organizing an event featuring lectures by prominent scholars of Indian civilization. This two-day More...
SamskrutAndhramulu – A Symphony Down the Ages
Samskrutandhramulu—the word is a Dwandwasamasam, a compound word formed by joining “Samskrutam” and “Andhram.” Andhram here represents the ‘Telugu’ language. The term Andhra Bhasha was and is often More...
Decolonizing the Humanities
Humanities are the foundation of any society. National leaders and thinkers must be schooled in the humanities, with deep roots in the nation and the society they seek to lead. And Indian humanities have deep spiritual More...
The Colonized Indian Mind
An excerpt from Michel Danino’s book Indian Culture and India’s Future. In the clash of two civilizations – for it was undoubtedly one – the European, younger, dynamic, hungry for space and riches, More...
Pāṇini, Xuanzang, and Tolkāppiyaṉ: Some legends and history
Pāṇini stands at the pinnacle of Hindu intellectual achievement. His sūtra-pāṭha may be considered a monument in the same league as the invention of the śūṇya-based numeral system for which the Hindus More...
Seminar on Intellectual Traditions of Ancient India: Day 3
Day 3 of the Seminar on Intellectual Traditions of Ancient India started with a talk on “Cryptographic Poetry in Sanskrit” by Professor K.S.Kannan. One elementary technique that has been put into a high More...
Acharya Pullela Sriramachandrudu: A Tribute
This essay in Kannada authored by Shatavadhani Dr. R Ganesh was originally published in the daily, Vijaya Vani in July 2015. Translated by Sandeep Balakrishna. Any sensitive Indian who has dipped into the ocean 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...
Lessons from the Rajiv Malhotra Affair
Now that everybody has had his say on the Rajiv Malhotra plagiarism affair, we can better discern the larger context that explains the different forces at work here. Plagiarism The trigger was the discovery that More...