Notes on Culture

One of the immediate things that occur after a Muslim invasion is how the event purposefully erases all traces of a Hindu past

The Art of Intellectual Combat: Srinatha vs. Dindima in the Vijayanagara Court

Arjun Bharadwaj provides a rather profound and objective analysis of the much-debated episode of Sita Devi's abandonment by Sri Rama

This is a heartwarming and evocative profile of Swami Mahadeva Sastri, an Avadhoota in Bangalore hailing from the pre-Independence era.

A critical analysis of the 1987 Tamil film, "Nayagan," which is widely regarded as one of the best movies of Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan.

Extracts from Sri D.V. Gundappa's essay on the conception of Rama Rajya

Several famous and popular episodes and stories in the Ramayana are actually interpolations added to the epic over time. This essay unravels some major such episodes using evidence-backed scholarship. ...

The unknown folklore of Manasa Devi, the snake-goddess worshipped in the Bhagirathi-Hooghly region about a century ago.