Notes on Culture

Rama and Guha in a boat
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. ...
Sanskrit Through the Ages: A Forgotten Lecture by K.M. Munshi
A 1951 lecture delivered by K.M. Munshi on the importance and primacy of Sanskrit as our national language and a great vehicle for the cultural rejuvenation of Bharatavarsha.
No, You can't Separate Yoga from Sanatana Dharma
An essay that traces the philosophical, textual, traditional and practical roots of Yoga and exposes the attempts both by the West and Indian Yoga entrepreneurs to dissociate Yoga from its Hindu moori ...
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 ...
Jadunath Sarkar as a World-Class Scholar and Original Historian
In the fifth episode of this series, G.S. Sardesai paints an extensive portrait showcasing the extraordinary breadth and originality of Jadunath Sarkar's scholarship in history
The Islamic System of Nazar as a Source of Corruption
The Nazar system was a defining feature of Islamic regimes in India. In practice, it normalised political and official corruption at all levels beginning with the monarch himself, and was responsible ...
Mad Sadhu of Kashi
A profound philosophical Pravachan delivered by a "Mad Sadhu" of Kashi sometime in the 1920s as recorded by Gopinath Kaviraj
The Civilisational Wound and the Cultural Hoax Called Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb
A historical exploration of the phenomenon commonly known as Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb
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