Notes on Culture

In this episode, DVG provides a brief sketch of the life of Rishi Manu along with a brief, chapter-wise synopsis of the Manusmriti.

Excerpts from an 1891 book describing the profound social life of the 11th century village of Kelambakam located between Mahabalipuram and Kanchipuram.

This is the firsthand story narrating the origins of how Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composed India's national song, Vande Mataram

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 ...

How Jawaharlal Nehru's lifelong obsession for seeking validation from the White Man enabled large scale conversion activity by Christian missionaries in India

This is the story of a silk-weavers guild from Mandsaur who restored a magnificent Surya Mandir in 473 CE

The sort of cultural commitment that the exemplars of Indian history had set for themselves is truly astonishing

Founded in 1901-2, the Kangri Gurukula Academy near Hardwar, was inspired by the Gurukula ideal. It was originally the brainchild of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, which was concretised by Lala Munshi Ram ...