A single mustard-and-maroon saree becomes the thread weaving together generations of memory. As a mother recounts its journey - from saree to half-saree, curtain, cushion cover, and album cover—her daughter discovers how fabric can carry family history. Each transformation holds laughter, sisterly love, and the ingenuity of making do with what one has. In the end, the saree becomes more than clothing - it becomes a living archive of relationships, creativity, and continuity.
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Inventing the Oppressor: Social Theory and the Logic of the UGC Regulations
Aryan Anand argues that the debate around the recent UGC guidelines has remained confined to immediate political reactions, ignoring the deeper intellectual frameworks shaping such policies. Drawing on strands of critical social theory, he contends that contemporary policy increasingly operates through rigid oppressor–oppressed binaries. Applied mechanically to the Indian context, this framework risks misreading the complex realities of caste and society. Anand suggests that policies built on such assumptions may ultimately deepen social divisions rather than address them.

Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?
Was A.R. Rahman’s reference to a “communal thing” in Bollywood a careless gaffe—or a calibrated signal within a larger minority-progressive discourse? Situating his remarks within a broader pattern of celebrity secularism, this essay argues that selective invocations of intolerance often coexist with studied evasions on questions of history, identity, and civilizational memory. Rahman’s diplomatic silences—on Aurangzeb, on cultural politics, on ideological alignments—appear less accidental than strategic. The result is a familiar cycle: grievance, outrage, clarification, and international amplification. At stake is not merely celebrity speech, but the narrative framing of Hindu-majority India itself.

Inside the Temple Crisis: Governance and Preservation Challenges
Across India’s temple towns, rising tourist footfall, evolving governance structures, and new revenue models are reshaping how sacred sites are administered and preserved. Temples, once self-sustaining civilizational institutions, are increasingly treated as revenue-generating assets, with properties sold, offerings monetized, and darshan commodified. Rema Raghavan writes that this commercialization displaces local communities, erodes ritual continuity, and weakens the organic moral oversight once provided by resident devotees. As temples transform from living centers of worship into tourist spectacles, the intimate bond between deity, devotee, and community frays. Restoring temples as civilizational epicenters, she argues, requires accountable governance, empowered local participation, and an uncompromising commitment to ritual and heritage preservation.

An Air of Social Doom: Political Propaganda Passed off as Moral Messaging
This article by Sriram Chellapilla, the fifth in a series of essays on the subject, argues that celebrity anguish over press freedom, NGOs, and society functions less as moral concern and more as selective political signaling. Using Naseeruddin Shah’s statements as a framing device, the author exposes how unelected NGOs, opaque media ownership, and celebrity activism often mask ideological agendas behind the language of freedom. Chellapilla contends that scrutiny of NGOs and media is neither new nor authoritarian, having been pursued by successive governments. What is troubling, he argues, is the hypocrisy of invoking free speech only when aligned with preferred politics, while remaining silent on censorship and intimidation by “secular” regimes.
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Conundrum of the Hindu identity
The Indian state refuses to recognize Hindus as the varied trees of the same forest and instead considers them worth protecting only if they conform like the uniform vegetation in a small grove or a garden.
Witzel’s Realm – On Reputationist Concerns Over India’s Reclamation of its History
Western Indologists such as Witzel cannot seem to accept the fact that Hindus now are reclaiming their own history.
Effects of Colonization on Indian Thought – Part 2
This Indian genius has now begun to percolate back to the West, where it inspires new approaches, deeper thoughts, though not yet the transforming Shakti. Perhaps the tide of colonialism will be reversed, after all.
Psychology of Monotheism
The monotheistic God has chosen Man to exploit the very world he has supposedly created.
“Oppenheimer”, the Gita, and Dharma
Imbibing the spirit of true Dharma, one achieves communion with nature, the cosmos, and eventually the Supreme being. The eternal fight therefore, is not between good and evil, or between believers and non-believers, but between Dharma and Adharma.
Isopanishad
The Isopanishad with just 18 verses is the most power-packed text to begin our journey of svadhyaya.
Garuda and the State of Flow
When we combine the legend of Garuda from the Puranas with modern scientific perspectives, we can better understand the science of living in the now.
Arasavalli Suryanarayana Temple – Part 2
Surya Devta requires us to not shirk our responsibility but fight against those who try to dismantle this great civilization at every step.
Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Part 3
Prophetic religions believe that there is a special God who has a special people, and who is known only through their special intermediary.
Philosophical Systems Of India – A Primer – Part 4
In the fourth part of the 5-part series on Indian philosophical systems, Dr. Pingali Gopal discusses the prominent Advaitic view on the notions of the Self and the non-Self. We shall also see the notion of cause and effect in the material world and how the Self interacts with the material world. It is a promise of Indian Darshanas that proper knowledge confers liberation to the striving individual.
8 reasons why Hinduism rocks in the new age
The openness and plurality of Hinduism make it an ideal religion for all times and especially in this age of reason and cosmopolitan societies.
In spite of Hinduism
Maligning Hinduism is a standard practice that shows no signs of slowing down as inherent biases still remain.
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Bhārat’s Flag, Anthem and Name
In this article, Dr. Koenraad Elst reflects on how India's national symbols—its flag, anthem, and the very name Bharat—are deeply rooted in Hindu tradition. Elst argues that despite the secularist intentions of Nehruvian India, the Dharma Cakra in the flag, the reference to Ma Durga in the anthem, and the nation taking its name from King Bharata, reveal a cultural continuity that cannot be denied: that India, by heritage and spirit, remains a Hindu Rāṣṭra.
The Flawed and Dangerous New Educational Policy (NEP)
This article discusses the principal reasons that make the New Educational Policy (NEP) dangerous for Hindus and the traditional learning systems of Bharat. It does have some good points but the negatives far outweigh the positives to the extent that they may cause total destruction of Bharat’s ethos, culture, and values in a very short time.
Return Gift
The difference in the Hindu ethos amongst those of the older generation versus the present lot is all too evident to see.
The Military Genius of Babu Kunwar Singh
One of the most accomplished military leaders of the First War of Independence, Babu Kunwar Singh, feared by the British more than any other, did not get his due in recorded accounts.
This post is an analysis of his methods as well as victories, establishing his military genius.
मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम राम, मर्यादा परिभाषा श्याम
मर्यादा के अर्थ का अन्वेषण करना इस बदलते हूऐ वातावरण्ा में अनिवार्य है।
Suryanar Kovil, Kumbakonam – Part 1
The attraction towards a so-called modern outlook is hard to resist as one struggles to retain the traditions of one's ancestors.
Somnath Temple – Rising Phoenix
Somnath is a veritable treasure trove of pilgrimage locations, all clustered around the famous Jyotirlinga temple.
Philosophy of Healing in Ayurveda
Health, as per Ayurveda, has both physical and moral components and is deeply embedded in the worldview derived from the six principal darsanas of Hindu philosophy.
The Root of All Ideological Conflicts: Cultural Marxism
Jahnavi Naik explores the penetration of Marxism in society and culture, and delves deep into the phenomenon that is 'Cultural Marxism' - its definition, its reach, its methods; and examples from recent happenings in the country.
Śaṅkara Charitam – a re-telling – Chapter-11 – Patañjaliṃ-Gaudam-Govindaṃ
The boy Śaṅkara continues on his path, in search of his Guru. Meanwhile, Patañjali Mahaṛṣi, who is Śānta-svarūpa of the ugra-rūpa of Ādiśeṣa, aims to teach a thousand students at once; and places two conditions in front of his students. Both conditions are violated by his students, and the aftermath and its ramifications on the journey of Śaṅkara are discussed.
Purandara Dasa’s Wife: Ushering A Miserly Rich Trader Into A Tamboori-Wielding Mendicant Saint-Poet
This the story of Purandara Dasa's wife Saraswati Bai, the woman who transformed a rich miser who sat on wealth for his entire life into a barefoot mendicant Dasa of Sri Hari. Purandasa Dasa, also known as the 'pitamah of Carnatic music', is known to have composed 4,75,000 devotional songs, all attributed to Purandara Vitthala, of which at least 1,000 songs still survive.
Swami Karpatri and Sabarimala
There have been precursors to Sabarimala where Hindu traditions were also attacked.
