Notes on Culture

An overall assessment of the trajectory, downfall and death of Progressive literature in India and the damage it has inflicted on the literary and cultural sensibilities of our people.

This is the story of a silk-weavers guild from Mandsaur who restored a magnificent Surya Mandir in 473 CE

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

The first part of a series carrying excerpts from Dr. Francis, a British surgeon who stayed in India at the turn of the twentieth century and recorded his observations of our society, culture, beliefs ...

An essay on how the foundation for the Islamisation of Hindi cinema was laid as early as the 1930s beginning with the film, "Alam Ara."

A random selection of ten Subhashitas of Bharthari drawn from the Niti and Vairagya Shatakas

A tribute to the legendary D.V.Gundappa or DVG on his 138th birthday