How a single encounter in Bareilly in 1882 pulled a brilliant but drifting young Munshi Ram out of dissipation and set him on the road of Arya revival — the birth of a lifelong transformation.
The young St Nihal Singh's intimate portrait of Swami Shraddhananda who urged him to write, challenged colonial “peace,” and passed on a blazing torch of Arsha Dharma against inimical forces
A vivid first-person memoir of the towering lawyer who once defeated the Punjab’s most celebrated English barrister — and later became one of modern India’s most formidable Hindu revivalists.
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
Read these little-known episodes of Ghar-Wapsi in the Vijayanagara and the Maratha Empire, and the Arya Samaj's role in reconverting Hindus
Ghar-Wapsi of converted Hindus was a continuous process until it suddenly stopped due to the depleted vigour of the Hindu society
The original term of Ghar-Wapsi is Paravartana. It dates back to the tenth century, before Mahmud of Ghazni's invasion of India.
Nobody—including me—perhaps knows who Baba Madhavdas was. Suffice to say that he was akin to the countless millions of Sadhus and Babas who dot the sacred geography of Bharatavarsha who do no “productive” work but without who Bharatavarsha will lapse and descend into India. I first read about