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Vyasa Purnima: The Unsurpassed Educational Heritage of India

Vyasa Purnima: The Unsurpassed Educational Heritage of India

A detailed exploration of Vyasa Purnima or Guru Purnima, a sacred day that reminds Hindus of the unparalleled educational heritage of Bharatavarsha. There is nothing like this anywhere in the world.

The Worst Nightmare of the Congress Party is the Building of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

The Worst Nightmare of the Congress Party is the Building of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has bombed Article 370 and 35A into the dustbin of history thereby paving way for the complete integration of Kashmir into the rest of Bharatavarsha. But this is only a sacred Dharma that has just begun. It will reach its completion and fruition when Kashmir will

10 Features Showing the Fundamental and All-encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha: A Ready Reckoner

10 Features Showing the Fundamental and All-encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha: A Ready Reckoner

One of the seminal seeds of mischief that the British and Maculayite education system sowed on the Hindu psyche is the phony claim that Bharatavarsha was never a united country. Of course, there was no dearth of Indian scholars, thinkers, writers and statesmen of that period who powerfully debunked this

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

It’s Nearly Five Hundred Years: Sri Ramachandra is Awaiting his Return to his Own Home

IF there’s one person who has his finger on the pulse of Hindu pusillanimity, inertia and self-imposed helplessness with deadly accuracy, it is Sri Sri Asaduddin Owaisi. Here’s what he said in the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the Ayodhya case. Asaduddin Owaisi,

Hindus Still Don’t Own the Narrative about themselves

Hindus Still Don’t Own the Narrative about themselves

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,

T M Krishna: The Musical Urban Naxal

T M Krishna: The Musical Urban Naxal

What ails T M Krishna?Wrong question. The right answer: T M Krishna is himself an ailment. To those who have followed Thodur Madabussi Krishna’s musical career for a while, it’s evident that while his career’s metamorphosis has been along expected lines, it has reached its logical

Yes. The Taj Mahal is a Despot’s Monument to a Woman

Yes. The Taj Mahal is a Despot’s Monument to a Woman

A cultural analysis of the real symbolism of the Taj Mahal

Congratulations to Narendra Modi for the Action against these National Security Threats

Congratulations to Narendra Modi for the Action against these National Security Threats

Maoists and Naxals are national security threats. Discursive confusion arises at the precise moment one forgets this basic premise. Look at what’s happening in the immediate aftermath of the well-deserved and long-pending arrests of the five Maoists: Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun

Kerala Floods: When the Comrades Shed their Clothes

Kerala Floods: When the Comrades Shed their Clothes

Nothing excites our Red-drenched comrades, now masquerading as liberals, as much as large-scale suffering. Larger the scale, greater are the swirls of the romantic and dreamy ideological mists that sway like diaphanous, tantalising curtains before their eyes. Their excitement is almost sexual, a heady tumescence anticipating a bloody

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Hero of India's Second Freedom Movement

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Hero of India's Second Freedom Movement

In adversity, he was a unifier, in victory, magnanimous, in defeat, equanimous, and in exit, gracious. Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This is his finest hour. Mesmerising Orator A late rainy monsoon evening, 1991. The familiar venue of the National College grounds in Bangalore was overflowing, throbbing with energetic anticipation awaiting the

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