Koenraad Elst

Essays

Vrātya-stōma: Schopenhauer, Emerson, Elst and Frawley

Vrātya-stōma: Schopenhauer, Emerson, Elst and Frawley

The Vrātya-stōma was the typical ceremony performed for admitting foreigners into the Sanatana society during the pre-Islamic period. It is still valid for foreigners who formally want to become Hindus.

On the Eve of the Ayodhya Bhoomi Puja: Remembering Sita Ram Goel

On the Eve of the Ayodhya Bhoomi Puja: Remembering Sita Ram Goel

As the much-awaited Bhoomi Puja takes place tomorrow at Ayodhya, an essay commemorating the outstanding contribution made by the fine scholar and historian Sita Ram Goel to Hindu civilisational resurgence.

From Caldwell, Karunanidhi to Kamil Zvelebil: The Long Tradition of Dismantling Sanatana Dharma

From Caldwell, Karunanidhi to Kamil Zvelebil: The Long Tradition of Dismantling Sanatana Dharma

How a long intellectual and ideological tradition of demonising and dismantling Sanatana Dharma resulted in the exponential growth of breaking India forces

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

Without doubt, Ram Swarup, Sitaram Goel and Arun Shourie (before he irreversibly slid down the oily wall of slathered ambition and reached his current position) occupy places of deserved eminence in the pantheon of what is crudely known as Hindu revivalism after India attained freedom from about a thousand years