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Nuwari of a Story!
March 08, 2026March 8, 2026STORYBy Charu Uppal0 0

Nuwari of a Story!

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
March 05, 2026March 5, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Aryan Anand1 0

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.

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Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?
March 02, 2026March 2, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Sriram Chellapilla0 0

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.

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Inside the Temple Crisis: Governance and Preservation Challenges
February 17, 2026February 17, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Rema Raghavan4 0

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.

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An Air of Social Doom: Political Propaganda Passed off as Moral Messaging
February 07, 2026February 13, 2026COMMENTARYBy Sriram Chellapilla1 0

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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In EXCERPT

The Petition has served a great purpose

The petition against the Quran served to wake Hindus up from their slumber.

In COMMENTARY, ECONOMY, HISTORY

Understanding Indian Economy: Ancient To Modern – Part 1

"For a long time, Marxist historians had a hegemonic hold on only one type of discourse. Marxist linear history represents India and its traditions as the past, or decadence, and the West as the future, or progress. In a world where globalisation, trade, and mutual exchange are a given, it is disagreeable to argue that perhaps we needed an invasion or colonisation to open our eyes to the world."

In TRANSLATION

In Search of the Source of the Bhāgīrathī

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose's journey to discover the locks of Mahādeva.

In ESSAY

Dharmic significance of Sabarimala

The modern interpretation of the brahmacharya practice at Sabarimala has obfuscated the truth and made it all about gender equality.

In ESSAY

A storyteller’s experiences with divinity

The tradition of storytelling is as old as Hindu culture with its immense impact having defined our very way of life.

In ESSAY, DEBATE, HISTORY

Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva – Part 1

Who exactly is a ‘Hindu’ and what are ‘Hinduism’ and ‘Hindutva’? Does it mean the land (geography), ancestral roots (history), or a shared culture?
Dr. Pingali Gopal tackles this proverbial bull by the horns, systematically looking at attempts to define and distinguish ‘Hinduism’ and ‘Hindutva’ by Western thought, the Indian liberal elite, and practising Hindus.

In ESSAY

Pishacha Vivaha – Reparation Marriage

Treating a rape as less consequential if the victim agrees to marry the perpetrator has no place in contemporary society but to call it "patriarchal" is downright silly.

In ESSAY

Logic behind the perversion of caste

Caste in old India was a cooperative and cultural principle, but it is now being turned into a principle of social conflict.

In COMMENTARY

Ayurveda: Tradition, Science, and Recognition in a Globalised World

Ayurveda, despite being a system as ancient as, and deeper and more effective than, the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), does not yet enjoy the same reverential status accorded to TCM. Does the cause lie in its inability to fit into the modern lifestyle, or with us for failing to find and project pride in our own cultural heritage and treasures?

In ESSAY

Yoga and Human Evolution

"In each Kaliyuga mankind gains something in essential spirituality. Whether we take the modern scientific or the ancient Hindu standpoint the progress of humanity is a fact. The wheel of Brahma rotates forever but it does not turn in the same place; its rotations carry it forward".

In ESSAY

The Ayodhya conflict solved

Secularists still find it hard to spell out the obvious solution to the Ayodhya conflict.

In ESSAY

A Tribute to a General – From a Common Man

General Bipin Rawat’s style as any defence strategist would tell us, thought beyond the army and how to arouse the army spirit in every average Indian.

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In ESSAY

Looking for Indianness

The essence of what constitutes Indianness is disappearing in the mutating mass of present day society, not helped by the Indians' own cultural bankruptcy, which might pave the way towards a regrettable future.

In ESSAY

The Number 12 – An Exploration across Cultures

In this essay, Dr. Koenraad Elst explores the profound symbolic importance of the number 12 across cultures, from the 12 Ādityas in the Vedas to the Olympian gods and the 12-starred EU flag. In ancient India, it represented cosmic order, as seen in the Ṛg-Vedic 'Riddle Hymn' describing a twelve-spoked wheel of Ṛta. Mathematically and geometrically unique, the twelvefold division underlies the structure of the Zodiac and the ancient Yajur-Vedic seasonal cycle.

In COMMENTARY

Saraswati as Aurobindo saw her

The origin of Saraswati worship is in the Vedas, which have a very precise and detailed exposition of her role and place in the spiritual universe.

In STORY

‘Flight of the Deity’ from Mulasthana – Part 2

A search for answers that led them to rediscover their glorious past.

In STORY

‘Flight of the Deity’ from Mulasthana – Part 1

To live in a land with a horrifying past whose scars still remain.

In HISTORY, COMMENTARY, ESSAY

Why Prithviraj Chauhan is Revered as the Saviour of Hindus

Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan, often seen only through the lens of Chandar Bardai's Prithviraj Raso, seems to be like any other Rajput king at first - the text emphasises his personal life more than his military might or any other facet.
This article aims to make a well-rounded conclusion about Prithviraj's character and his primary basis for deciding between friend and foe, and establishes him as a hero and saviour for Hindus.

In COMMENTARY, ESSAY

Śaṅkara Charitam – A Re-telling – Chapter 03

Skanda comes as Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, Sivaguru and Āryambha are given a vision of the divine descent and are asked to make a choice.

In ESSAY

Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections

Buddhism was one of the nastik schools of thought that rejected the authority of the Vedas but used many of its teachings to build its philosophical foundation.

In COMMENTARY

On Sabarimala

The recent verdict on the entry of women in the Sabarimala shrine serves as a grim reminder of the wide gap between the colonial moorings of the modern Indian State and the spiritual aspirations of the Indian people.

In VIDEO

Challenging the dominant discourse on dating of epics

A detailed presentation of his theory of dating Mahabharat to 6th millennium BC and Ramayan to 14th millennium BC by Nilesh Oak.

In ESSAY

An Indian Classics Curriculum

Classical Indian texts need to be introduced into the curriculum so that students are made aware of the massive strides their ancestors took in all fields of intellectual rigour.

In COMMENTARY, ESSAY

When Scientism Overshadows Science: An Orthodox Critique of the Sophistry of Evolutionism

"It is a modern tendency within religious factions to seek a synthesis and synchronization between the domains of Religion and Science. This inclination manifests in the attempts of forceful amalgamation of both domains, with the rejection of traditional interpretations of Religion and deliberate efforts to reformulate it to seamlessly align with the framework of Science."

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