Notes on Culture

Śivapada Śekhara Rajaraja Chola Builds the Brihadeeshwara Temple: The First Stage
An essay series covering various aspects of the building of the majestic Brihadeeshwara Temple, which was first conceived in the imagination of Raja Raja Chola.
Ghar-Wapsi Temple Surrounded by Mosque.jpg
The concluding episode of this series offers some suggestions regarding Ghar-Wapsi and some measures to counter the existential threat faced by the Hindu community
When Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan Composed the Mela Ragamalika in Just a Week
Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan was a child prodigy whose compositions match the quality of the Trinity of Carnatic Classical Music.
The Poor Brahmin and the Five Gold Cups
A simple but enchanting folktale from South India that is also deeply instructive
The Manusmriti Special Series: DVG’s Guide to Understanding the Manusmriti
The first episode of a series on correctly understanding the Manusmriti drawn from D.V. Gundappa's treatise titled "The Code of Manu."
A scene at the Kumbha Mela
Exploring the philosophical and cultural dimensions of the Kumbha Mela
Mad Sadhu of Kashi
A profound philosophical Pravachan delivered by a "Mad Sadhu" of Kashi sometime in the 1920s as recorded by Gopinath Kaviraj
How the All India Progressive Writers' Association was Used as a Communist Vehicle to Bulldoze Indian Literature
Origins of The All India Progressive Writers' Association, an organ of the Communist Party of India that invaded the Indian literary space in the 1930s and inflicted enormous damage
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