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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करवा चौथ की सामायिक प्रासंगकिता
करवा चौथ का व्रत सामुदायिक, पारिवारिक और पति-पत्नी के रिश्ते को प्रगाढ़ करने का सुन्दर प्रयास है।
Thillai Nataraja – The Regenerative Force of Life
The boundless Shakti present in Chidambaram helps our consciousness to come out of its slumber and start the regeneration process.
Hinduism in a Postmodern World (Part 1)
With the negation of reason, logic and objective truth as its central dogma, postmodernism makes it impossible to have a dialogue with other systems of thought and thus promotes conflict.
An Indic Reading of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Part I
The influence of the Vedanta in this work of Friedrich Nietzsche is clearly visible.
Suryanar Kovil, Kumbakonam – Part 3
Understanding the threat posed by predatory ideologies is a must if Hinduism is to survive in the future.
Śaṅkara Charitam – a re-telling – Chapter-13 – At the feet of the Guru
Chapter 13 of Śaṅkara Charitam takes us through Śaṅkara’s experience with his Guru, Govinda Bhagavatpāda, the completion of his education, and Guru's blessings and final teachings for Śaṅkara to take with him in the world and tackle the thick forest of ignorance enveloping the minds of the people.
Gauḍapāda as Brahmarākṣasa finds Govinda Bhagavatpāda acceptable as a disciple, and the teaching starts atop the pipal tree in which the Brahmarākṣasa resides..........
Rock-cut temple and Jain-reliefs at Kazhugumalai, Tamil Nadu
The majestic Pandya rock-cut Shiva temple looks like a scale model of the Kailash temple at Ellora with rows of magnificent Jain bas-reliefs also present.
Perversion of India’s political parlance – Part 1
Since its introduction in India, Leftist language has clearly dominated the discourse and performed the task of othering remarkably.
Arya and Swastika
Maligned and associated with the Nazis, the Swastika symbol and the Aryan people have long been the sufferers of anti-Hindu rhetoric.
When Sadhus get lynched
One thing that has remained constant despite tremendous upheaval for millennia in India is the undefeated spirit of the sadhu who has roamed these lands.
Nababarsha (The New Year)
Bharatavarsha did not pass by the man and make work larger than humanity. By giving importance to action emptied of desire for reward, she has in fact reined in work with restraint. When the desire for reward is abandoned, the work loses its
Vivekananda’s Teachings on Character-Building
Vivekananda propounded ‘man-making education’ which involves the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.
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AIT and the science of linguistics
Linguistics is a field far away from the wild speculations of folk etymology and while it may not have the relative certitude of the exact sciences, it is nevertheless a scientific enterprise that opponents of the Aryan Invasion Theory may do well to familiarize themselves with, if they hope to win the debate at some point in the future.
The Ballad of Ayyappā’s People
Ayyappa's followers in the face of abominable state and police action have been rendered powerless.
Vedakosha Vibhaaga – Origin, organization and propagation of Vedic knowledge
The Vedas and the knowledge contained in them was deciphered by rishis and passed on in the guru-shishya tradition.
What is culture?
In Indian culture, spirituality permeates life; spirituality is the pivot around which all other activities revolve.
Gumnaami: In the search for truth
As the years roll by, Netaji's life after WW-II has more questions attached with it than answers.
Science, Secularism and Saturn
The interplay between rationality, politics and Hindu tradition is much more complex than westerners or elitist Indians imagine. The worship of reason at the expense of traditional wisdom of the diverse communities in India creates artificial fault lines in the social fabric of the country and can have serious long term implications.
‘Aryaa’ – An Anthology of Vedic Women – Review
"Stories ranging from the Warrior princess Chitraganda who fights alongside Arjuna to the bold princess Ulupi who approaches Arjuna for the union of her own accord to Queen Subhadra who finds a different way of carrying out her dharma and supporting her husband than the conventional way one expects a wife to. Characters etched in the minds of popular imagination such as Satyavati, Shakuntala, and the duo Nala-Damayanti are also presented in a narrative that cannot fail to entertain and arouse interest. The most metaphysical and philosophical stories are undoubtedly those of Gargi, the Brahmavadini, and Maitreyi, the scholarly wife of the famed Yajnavalkya. These stories prove that while there were women steeped in the Shastric worldview, they were not purposely debarred from aspiring towards education and a spiritual path."
In this review of 'Aryaa - An Anthology of Vedic Women' Rohan Raghav Sharma discusses the need for such a book before delving into each of the ten stories told in the book. He gives detailed insights into each story along with his critique of the writing styles of the different writers.
Why I became a Dharma Slacktivist
The overall campaign from various fronts targetting Hindus is massive but that should only make us fight harder.
विश्वास की एक बूँद
जीवन में भक्ति और विश्वास का स्थान स्थिर है जिसे आधुनिक जीवन के उथले सिद्धांत नहीं ले सकते ।
Brahmanism 102: The Prophet of Sanatana Dharma and his “idea of India”
‘Hindu’ is a term given to us by others who thought that their religion was better than ours. To them,...
Monumental Jihad: Strategy to keep Bharat in ruins
Decades after independence, is it any wonder that heritage monuments of Hindu origin are still in ruins?
Destruction of Idols and Idol-Temples in Jihãd: The Evidence of the Sunnah
The call to raze temples and destroy idols is very well established in Islamic texts though strangely it isn't directly connected to Jihad.
