Notes on Culture

The Destruction of the Indian Aesthetic Tradition has Culminated in Artistic Famine in Indian Cinema
The Indian aesthetic tradition based on universal principles, was systematically destroyed and has left its pernicious imprint on Indian cinema as well.
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.
Monkeys in the Ramayana Frolicking
Adikavi, Maharshi Valmiki provided the first great model for composing poetry imbued with all the nine Rasas. He authored the Ramayana at a time when the formal academic discipline of aesthetics was n ...
The Forgotten Hindu History of Pakistan is Just a Pause: A Finale
It is both a civilisational necessity and imperative for what remains of Bharatavarsha to teach and remember the Hindu history of Pakistan
Mandsaur
This is the story of a silk-weavers guild from Mandsaur who restored a magnificent Surya Mandir in 473 CE
Shyamdas
Gopinath Kaviraj evocatively describes the profound spiritual Sadhana of a Vaishnava Sadhu named Shyamdas Babaji
R.C. Majumdar
Remembering R.C. Majumdar, one of India's greatest gifts to the world of historical scholarship
A Short History of the Premeditated Leftist Slaughter of the Indian Literary and Aesthetic 
Tradition
The first part of a series documenting the brief history of the calculated destruction of the two-millenia-old tradition of Indian literary and aesthetic tradition and discipline
The Fabulous Tradition of Adaptive Direct Transmission of Sacred Knowledge Through Itihasa and Purana
Our ancient Rishis, Gurus and Acharyas relied on direct communication of essential knowledge and developed creative and flexible methods for its retention and transmission so that it reached the last ...
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