Understanding Navaratri through Vedanta
Navaratri or the festival of nine nights is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Hindus across the world. There is a diversity in the way the festival is celebrated in various parts of the country, More...
Sanskritization: A New Model of Language Development
The Current Indo-European Model: The Migration of the Proto-Indo-Europeans The primary model used today for explaining the close relationships that exist between Indo-European languages is a migration theory. It More...
Understanding Modi’s Sanskrit Epithets-I
Have you noticed that Modi’s speeches are sprinkled with many phrases that are not in Hindi, like “Ahimsa Paramo DharmaH”? Most of these are in “Samskritam”, or “Sanskrit” in Anglicized form. What More...
The Significance of ॐ: A Linguistic and Philosophical Analysis
Appearing before Sanskrit mantras, or as a stand-alone entity, ॐ or OM is perhaps the most important sound, syllable, letter, and symbol in Hinduism. Whether in Hindu rituals, prayers, or Yogic activities, the More...
Denying Yoga Its Roots- Classic Case Of Hinduphobia
“Admiration of a foreign culture or a foreign aesthetic system can connote broad-mindedness and at the same time flatter the aesthetic or political pretensions of the connoisseur. The regard for difference can More...
Sāṅkhya: a brief critique
The classical Sāṅkhya contains several contradictions both in the epistemological and in the ontological sphere, despite the claim of its followers that it is a rational system. It does display reasoning in many More...
Shankara Jayanti Special: Five Lessons from Sadhana Panchakam
Adi Shankaracharya is one of the most outstanding personalities that India has produced in last few thousand years. He was a teacher, scholar, poet, saint, philosopher, yogi, bhakta, tantrika, a jivanmukta, and 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...
Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Myth and Reality
This is the first part of a series deconstructing Marxist historian and scholar D D Kosambi’s work, “Myth and Reality.” In 1962, the Marxist historian D D Kosambi published a work titled Myth and Reality: More...
Science and Vedanta – A Perspective
The Universe can be thought of consisting of essentially two things; the subject I and the object, the world. The subject cannot become an object and vice versa. I am a conscious entity and the world is an inert More...