Temple Reclamation Movement in Kerala
“Great civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.” So concluded Arnold Toynbee, the great historian who chartered the rise and fall of civilisations he identified on earth. He stated that the More...
Temples and Treats of Assam
We landed at Guwahati in the afternoon, an hour journey from Kolkata by air. The Brahmaputra is a grand river splitting Assam roughly in the middle forming upper and lower Assam. Kamarupa, the ancient Assam kingdom, More...
Tamil Nadu Travels – In the Lap of God
Tamil Nadu has more than 30,000 temples and about 2000 of them are in the Cauvery Delta. Immense prosperity and an enlightened monarchy paved the way for an advanced sculpture, arts, and music heavily intertwined More...
After millennia a Tradition is Reborn
Picture 1 Mohit Bharadwaj Mohit Bharadwaj is a man on a mission. He wants to have the 21 nitya sacrifices performed again in Madhyadesa, the original homeland of the Vedas and the very air ring with the songs More...
Sree Adikesava Perumal Temple: 2500 Years of Glorious Heritage
Sree Adikesava Perumal Temple, situated in Thiruvattar in Tamil Nadu (formerly a part of southern Kerala), has been in existence for circa two and half thousand years. It is one of the 108 Vaishnava temples, Divya More...
Book Review: The Infidel Next Door by Rajat Mitra
The Infidel Next Door by Rajat Mitra is available on Amazon. The Infidel Next Door opens with an arranged marriage between a sick orphan girl and a shy boy; but it quickly evolves to embrace more than two lost More...
How Old is The Hindu Temple?
India has the largest number of monuments in the world. Even after large-scale destruction of its temples during the Islamic invasions of India, still thousands upon thousands of the Hindu temples survive. Though More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 22 February 2015-1 March 2015
Death Threat to family of Hindu youth who married a Muslim girl Report: Here is the story of a Hindu family from a frugal background, living in perpetual terror and fear of Jihadist attacks, just because their More...
Video: Freeing Hindu Temples from Government Control
This is the complete video of IndiaFacts Webinar on Freeing Hindu Temples from Government Control. More...
Cows becoming endangered in Tamil Nadu
When it comes to religious tradition and the cultural heritage associated with it, our culture stands foremost in the world, with thousands of temples more than millennia old, a continuous legacy of pious worship More...