Notes on Culture

Gurukula grooming Pandits
How Macaulayite Hindus Destroyed the Pandit System of Scholarship
A Meeting held at the Bombay University Senate in 1913, among other things, set a blueprint of sorts to destroy the time-honoured system of scholarly education that produced Pandits of the highest ord ...
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Team Dharma Dispatch
4 min read
Venkannaya Meditating
The Triumph of Sri Venkannayya’s Rama Bhakti
A real-life episode from the 19th century narrating the extraordinary devotion that Sri Venkannayya had for Sri Ramachandra
By
Team Dharma Dispatch
5 min read
The Delightful Story of the Cussword, “Moo Devi”
The Delightful Story of the Cussword, “Moo Devi”
The Puranic roots and cultural metamorphosis of the expletive, "Moo Devi" prevalent in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
When Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan Composed the Mela Ragamalika in Just a Week
When Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan Composed the Mela Ragamalika in Just a Week
Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan was a child prodigy whose compositions match the quality of the Trinity of Carnatic Classical Music.
By
Dr. N.S. Rajaram
4 min read
The Grand World of Daana and the Civilisational Value we Have Lost
The Grand World of Daana and the Civilisational Value we Have Lost
An essay on the Sanatana conception of Daana or charity and the levels at which it works, and how it has shaped the Hindu civilisation and society.
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
6 min read
DVG writing
DVG: A Tribute to the "Vanasuma" or the Forest-Flower who Taught the Yoga of Life
A tribute to the legendary D.V.Gundappa or DVG on his 138th birthday
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
13 min read
The Story of Manasa Devi the Naga Goddess of Bhagirathi
The Story of Manasa Devi the Naga Goddess of Bhagirathi
The unknown folklore of Manasa Devi, the snake-goddess worshipped in the Bhagirathi-Hooghly region about a century ago.
By
Team Dharma Dispatch
5 min read
How the All India Progressive Writers' Association was Used as a Communist Vehicle to Bulldoze Indian Literature
How the All India Progressive Writers' Association was Used as a Communist Vehicle to Bulldoze Indian Literature
Origins of The All India Progressive Writers' Association, an organ of the Communist Party of India that invaded the Indian literary space in the 1930s and inflicted enormous damage
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
6 min read
Illustration of the Ramayana
Busting the Spurious Narrative of 300 Ramayanas
A.K. Ramanujan's infamous essay "300 Ramayanas," was a deliberate fabrication to rob Maharshi Valmiki's authorship of the Sanskrit original
By
Arjun Bharadwaj
5 min read
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