Aryan Invasion Myth: How 21st Century Science Debunks 19th Century Indology
The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) needs no introduction. It is the bedrock upon which Indian history has been written. Its central thesis has three main components: India’s original inhabitants were “dark-skinned” More...
Need for India’s Spirituality- revisiting Sri Aurobindo’s vision
In pursuing an English private school education in 90’s urban India, one thing that was quite natural for a student like me, was developing a sense of admiration for Western thought, culture and way of life. In More...
Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”cehr5yAKWI4dX2h76yWEGL5QqxyDyCEZ”] In Part 1, I discussed the Indigenous and Ambedkar’s views of our culture and history. The Indigenous view covered how the sages viewed our More...
Exploring ancient theistic arguments from the Nyāyakusumāñjali- I
It is common knowledge that atheism isn’t a recent phenomenon. Centuries and millennia prior to our own births, men have questioned the necessity to include a supernatural as the basis of explaining their lives. More...
The Chinese self-designation Hua and the root-word Ᾱrya
It is but rare that I take the trouble to write a mere summary of a paper I have read with increasing enthusiasm. Here is one occasion. It pertains to “The earliest Chinese words for ‘the Chinese’: the phonology, More...
History, Textbooks and Distortion
Vedic era and Vedic society The most ancient literary evidence in Indian history is the Veda. The ancient archaeological sites are that of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Unanimously all history textbooks tell that both More...
Book Review: Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar
Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar, Chennai: Rare Publications, 2016. The book can be purchased from Amazon and Flipkart. Musings on Hinduism by Nithin Sridhar is a compact work (188 pp) comprising of independent More...
Ayurveda : a distinctive approach to health and disease
Abstract The enormous complexity of human body offers scope to conceptualize its dynamic organisation in a number of ways such as structural, biochemical, functional, etc. The conventional western medicine views More...
A Case for Cow-Protection without Whitewashing the Past
“Cow” is called “aghnya”- the inviolable, the one which should not be harmed or killed. Hindus perceive her as the mother who nourishes everyone, as the abode of all goodness, and the very embodiment of More...
वैदिक कालगणना १: ऋतुबद्ध माघमास से वैदिक नए वर्ष प्रारम्भ
[contextly_sidebar id=”ExlBrVVIEigsrTxr0hKufQxANq78lkSt”] इस शृंखला के लेखों में हम समय के गणना की वैदिक प्रणाली More...