Pramatha Nath Bose, the father of Indian Geology was also a devout Sanatani. In this forgotten essay written in 1914, he warns how Western materialism was assaulting and distorting the profound Hindu system of ethics.
An eye-opening research paper from 1934 describes the society, customs, traditions and rituals of the Lapcha tribe of Sikkim.
Analysis of the shortcomings of the notion, approach, method and practice of conserving Hindu heritage structures contrasted with the Muslim approach, psyche and practice.
The contrast cannot be starker, and the trajectory, more contrarian. Every parallel train track typically ends in a wall. The childhood image of train tracks abruptly, almost rudely, suddenly disappearing inside a wall in Kanyakumari railway station comes to mind. As the curtains are fast falling on 2018, this analogy
Note: This essay is the final part of The Dharma Dispatch series documenting the methodical and systematic manner in which the British not only destroyed Indian food production but converted the country into a nation of beggars. This series has been excerpted from the meticulously researched book, “Annam Bahukurvita” authored
This tumultuous century provides an opportunity for comprehensive decolonisation of the Hindu cultural psyche
Prologue I distinctly recall an anecdote a veteran scholar once told me. The incident in the anecdote occurred sometime in the 1960s, the nascent stages of the era of spurious spiritualists and that class of rank materialists and megalomaniacs who eventually came to be known as Godmen, New-age Gurus,
First off, a huge and heartfelt congratulations to the entire Hindu community for its unprecedented solidarity in spontaneously hitting the roads in a massive wave of protest against the recent feminist-textbook judgement in the Sabarimala “case.” It hurts to even use words like “case,” “issue,” “controversy” and such other