Nirnayasagar Press: A Forgotten National Treasure
A long form essay on an iconic printing and publishing institution that for about a century enriched the world of Sanskrit and Bharatiya Bhasha
A Glimpse of the Daily Routine and Life of a Brahmin Patriarch
A slice of the daily routine of a typical Brahmin who lived in India just a century ago
Getting Jacked
Twitter Inc cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey visited India. And got Jacked. There’s just no other way to say this but it appears that Jack Dorsey seems dense or incompetent or both. For a techie and CEO of one of the world’s most successful social media platforms operating
The Sacred Bonds that Bind Bharatavarsha
In an earlier essay, I had remarked that the only way to “understand” Santana Dharma is to live it. What had once been akin to breathing to Hindus has now become a thing to “understand.” Let it also be said that you cannot “learn” Hinduism by reading any number of
The Politics of T M Krishna: A Ready Reckoner
One of the immoral Kannada proverbs goes thus: ಅನ್ನ ಹಳಸಿತ್ತು ನಾಯಿ ಹಸಿದಿತ್ತು (The food had rotted, the dog was hungry). This proverb pretty much accurately characterises the musical urban naxal, T M Krishna who has finally found refuge in the tainted arms of
The Ayodhya Dipotsava Diaries: An Introduction
Preface Nothing prepares you for Ayodhya. Nothing. Not even when you go there bearing in mind such lofty slokas as अयोध्या मथुरा माया काशी कान्ची अवन्तिकापुरी द्वारावती चैव सप्तैता मोक्षदायि
It is Time to Establish a National Institute of Liberal Pathology
If you’re a Hindu and you have a grown-up daughter, make sure that she doesn’t work in the degeneracy-infested, rootless, soulless Indian English media, especially, the Lutyens variant. If she does, she’ll emerge dumber than what she was before she went in. Not only that,
Spiritual Freedom and the Sacred Geography of Bharata
The concept of Purusharthas is one of the most singular and unique contributions to world culture, civilisation and human living. This is perhaps one of the best models for both a personal code of conduct for leading one’s life and an exploration of the much-touted western notion of
The Cultural Weakening of India and the Hindu Civilisational Continuum
What is common to the two avoidable events that occurred recently, viz, the so-called #MeToo dog-and-pony show, and second, the pushback against and persecution of the lakhs of Sabarimala protestors? In a line, the common factor in both is the near-total erosion of the identity of
It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home
IF there’s one person who has his finger on the pulse of Hindu pusillanimity, inertia and self-imposed helplessness with deadly accuracy, it is Sri Sri Asaduddin Owaisi. Here’s what he said in the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the Ayodhya case. Asaduddin Owaisi,