Notes on Culture

Some of the most popular episodes associated with the Ramayana do not actually appear in Maharshi Valmiki's original Ramayana at all

This is an abridged English translation of D.V. Gundappa's brilliant and moving profile of Bangalore Nagaratnamma, a musician par excellence who built a memorial for Tyagaraja in Tiruvayur.

A 1932 tribute in honour of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya authored by an ICS officer brings out the life of Malaviya, whom the author celebrates as a Super Brahmin

Srimad Ramayana is an immortal work of poetry imbued with great artistry. It is not a treatise on history, geography, anthropology, flora and fauna although these elements occur profusely in the epic. ...

The Manusmriti is a bitter medicine for the so-called modern man. In Manu's eyes, the modern man is in a pathetic condition and needs therapy.

In 1992, Arjun Singh, the Human Resources Minister, ordered the Archeological Survey of India to halt the excavations at the site of the disputed structure in Ayodhya in order to appease the Muslim vo ...

Ghar-Wapsi of converted Hindus was a continuous process until it suddenly stopped due to the depleted vigour of the Hindu society