Notes on Culture

K. Viswanath’s acclaimed cinematic corpus exquisitely reflects the timeless conception of Bharatavarsha's sacred geography.

In this episode, DVG presents eye-opening summaries of the chapters dealing with Svadharma, Rajadharma, Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Life in the Manusmriti.

A profile and humble tribute to Acharya Mysore Hiriyanna, one of the pristine scholars of Sanatana philosophy and aesthetics

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

An annotated exposition of Swami Vivekananda's doughty takedowns of Christian Missionary Perfidies

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 ...

An anecdote from the life of Babubhai Jashbhai Patel, former Gujarat Chief Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Sardar Patel University

The pioneers of Indian history faced extraordinary hazards in their quest for original historical sources like inscriptions, coins and documents