Notes on Culture

This is the concluding part of the series contrasting the helplessness of Europe against Islamic migrants and the resilience of Bharatavarsha

Following refined etiquette is a great hallmark of the Rāmāyaṇa. At almost every step, the epic provides us detailed, moving and brilliant pictures of the profound beliefs and value systems= by which ...

Remembering R.C. Majumdar, one of India's greatest gifts to the world of historical scholarship

In the second part of this series, Dr. Francis provides an eye-opening picture of the manner in which the officers of the British Raj took enormous loans from our Mahajans and Shroffs (moneylenders) f ...

Arjun Bharadwaj provides a rather profound and objective analysis of the much-debated episode of Sita Devi's abandonment by Sri Rama

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. ...

An essay on how the foundation for the Islamisation of Hindi cinema was laid as early as the 1930s beginning with the film, "Alam Ara."

How Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Patronage for the All India Progressive Writers' Association led to a systematic takeover of all cultural institutions