Notes on Culture

The first episode of a series analysing the nature of the relationship between Duryodhana and Karna.

Hindu inscriptions are actually Government records. They provide us authentic information about the historical events that they record.

A slice of the daily routine of a typical Brahmin who lived in India just a century ago

Using the cow as the central motif, Dr. Bhyrappa's Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane explores a complex array of themes in the novel

A comparative analysis of the Hindu code of war ethics and the Islamic jihad

An essay critiquing M.F. Hussain's vulgar depiction of Hindu Deities in his paintings and art

Delving into the Hindu annals, we get a fascinating, enlivening and instructive picture of the history of the ubiquitous banana. There is a fundamental reason why the banana is regarded as a sacred fr ...

A brief journey exploring the approach, method and discipline that went behind Acharya Jadunath Sarkar's writing his five-volume magnum opus, "History of Aurangzeb."

In the Sanatana theory and practice, education was not merely learning but realisation. Literacy was merely one subset of it.