Essays exploring the vast repository of the Hindu Cultural ethos
Read Part 1: The Notre Dame Fire and the Hindu Civilisational Resilience: Europe on the Brink What are the roots of what is known as the European civilisation? Generally speaking, they are the ancient Greek and Roman, both pre-Christian, and civilisations in the true sense. Two characteristics can generally
Victor Hugo is perhaps the most eminent writer who wrote that elegant and extensive ode to the grand Notre Dame Cathedral which went up in flames day before yesterday. His justly celebrated and poignant classic, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is actually a great motif in which the Cathedral is
निधये सर्वविद्यानां भिषजे भवरोगिणाम् । गुरवे सर्वलोकानां दक्षिणामूर्तये नमः ॥ Salutations to Dakshinamurthy the Guru, Who is the teacher of all the world | Who is the doctor for all diseases And who is the
Let me say it bluntly. What we call as the Kashmir “problem” is a polite way of describing a civilisational threat. It is a festering wound created by that Nawab of Cluelessness, our first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The contrast is incredible: on one hand we have a Sardar Patel
The majestic grandeur of the Himalayas is as timeless and sublime as Sanatana Dharma itself. There are as many number of crevices, caves, vales, and peaks as there are verses and proses extolling their noiseless beauty. Hundreds of years ago, there was a nameless, modest monastery located in a nameless
When we pause for a moment…just for a moment and think, it becomes clear that most things in life are really simple… things like our daily routine, the weather, our city, society, customs, traditions, and something as fundamental as the innate love for the country…all these are really
The rapist Christian “Father” Robin Vadakumcherry of Kottiyoor in Kannur was correctly sentenced by a special court for sixty years of imprisonment yesterday for repeatedly raping a minor girl. If one were to be perverse, one would say that the “Father” merely got unlucky for leaving behind a trail of
It is only befitting to begin this essay with that timeless opening sloka of the first of the ten principal Upanishads, the Ishavasyam. ईशा वास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् । तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथाः मागृधः
Note: This essay is excerpted from the seminal work on the Indian tradition of food sharing titled “Annam Bahukurvita” authored by Dr. J K Bajaj and Dr. M D Srinivas. The original title of the essay in the book is “Straying from the Discipline: The Memory Abides.” Not so long
Let me reiterate this: I have nothing but the highest admiration for the nonchalant guts of the Sentinelese who dispatched the soul-predator John Allen Chau to that abode where he will be eternally blessed by the kiss of Christ. The history of the world shows that the kiss of