Evolution, Religion, and Indian Traditions-whose Clash Is It Anyway?
Evolution-a Crash Course Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) gave us the most important theory of evolution sweeping away god or intelligence as creators of living and non-living beings. His theory rested on the four More...
Auroville: The Dream and the Nightmare
Two articles recently appeared, one in Deccan Chronicle by M.R. Venkatesh, the other on IndiaFacts by Raman Reddy, reviewing a recently published book, Auroville: A Dream Hijacked, by Nirmalya Mukherjee. These three More...
The Art of Discussion
Talking about and discussing important matters with our friends, acquaintances, social networks etc. has the potential to widen our understanding. But a recent online interaction once again made me ask a question More...
Sri Aurobindo and India’s Rebirth- A book by Michel Danino
A book comes along once in a way which hits you hard; and this is one of those. I discovered Swami Vivekananda through his Complete Works at the age of 40, and I kicked myself for having missed it for such a prolonged More...
The Wrong Notion that Sri Aurobindo Rejected Hinduism
This essay has been written with specific reference to The Clasp of Civilisations (2015) by Richard Hartz, published by Nalanda International, and Nationalism, Religion, and Beyond (2005), a compilation of Sri Aurobindo’s More...
A Case for Dharmic Psychology: Report on the Swadeshi Indology Conference 4
Disclaimer: I’m not a psychologist and I don’t claim to be one. I’m writing from a common man’s point of view with a decent understanding of both the Arts and Sciences. Something interesting happened a few More...
Opposing the Left is Not “Right”- Part I: A letter to students
Two Facebook Posts and a Debate with a Journalist Supporting Indian Left-Wing Thinking—A Case study It all started with the JNU row. Being an academic in the United States who teaches and researches in the areas More...
Skills for Life and Livelihood: Revive the Old Approach to Education
Education in India has always been a symbol of pride and heritage. Delivery of quality education to all has been a prolonged effort post-independence. Presently, India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies More...
Moving Away from Macaulayite Education
The fact that both English education and the mindless premium placed on the English language in India is at the root of several important problems faced by India since Independence is a given. However, I am not 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...