Notes on Culture

A bird's eye view of the fascinating and extraordinary history of flags and emblems in ancient India.

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

A critical analysis of the 1987 Tamil film, "Nayagan," which is widely regarded as one of the best movies of Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan.

An essay recounting an overlooked, contemporary cultural revolution ushered in through children's comics

The unknown folklore of Manasa Devi, the snake-goddess worshipped in the Bhagirathi-Hooghly region about a century ago.

In the second episode of this series, Pramatha Nath Bose gives us a splendid contrast between the West whose civilisation is fundamentally animalistic whereas the roots of the Sanatana civilisation ar ...

A profound philosophical Pravachan delivered by a "Mad Sadhu" of Kashi sometime in the 1920s as recorded by Gopinath Kaviraj

The first episode of a series documenting the exalted spiritual lives of obscure Sadhus and Sanyasis.

Exploring the Tirtha-Yatra connection between the Kangra Jwalamukhi Temple and the Jvalaji Temple in Baku, Azerbaijan