This episode fleshes out the training, character and the legacy of the luminaries of the New Indian Renaissance. They shaped their era almost from the scratch, having no past masters to help and guide their work.
Mankhas or Picture Showmen were practitioners of narrative pictorial storytelling. From very ancient times, it evolved into a separate art form and captured the imagination of countless generations and lasted up to even recent times.
A commentary on our approach to education using Ananda Coomaraswamy's classic essay on the subject
Ananda Coomaraswamy's farsighted and incisive observations of the ruin caused by British colonial education system
The first of a two-part series delineating the wisdom, diagnosis and solutions that our past masters and savants like Swami Vivekananda, Ananda Coomaraswamy and R.K. Mookerji offered about the urgent problem of education in India
An anecdote from the life of Babubhai Jashbhai Patel, former Gujarat Chief Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Sardar Patel University
ഹിന്ദു മാനസിക കോളനിവൽക്കരണം പൂർണ്ണമായും ഇല്ലാതാക്കാൻ പതിറ്റാണ്ടുകളുടെ ശാന്തവും സുസ്ഥിരവും ആത്മവിശ്വാസമുള്ളതുമായ ശ്രമം വേണ്ടിവരും എന്നാൽ ഇത് അവസാന അവസരമാണ്
An essay critiquing M.F. Hussain's vulgar depiction of Hindu Deities in his paintings and art
This essay is more in the nature of an attempt. To examine the socio-political and cultural narrative about India that was set in motion roughly around the colonial period. This narrative continues to remain profoundly Adharmic. More dangerously, the Hindus don’t own this narrative about themselves. Even worse,