The almost forgotten cave complex of Pitalkhora resonates the silence deep within us.
Year: 2016
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A Goddess who is both Kali and Sri
Rakta Chamunda blends the fierce and the peaceful in her personality, thus reflecting aspects of both Kali and Lalita.
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How Evangelists Invented ‘Dravidian Christianity’
Dravidian Christianity is a myth constructed from the narratives derived from colonial pseudo-scholarship.
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Tilak's sacrifice
How one of the tallest figures of the Indian freedom movement, a champion of the oppressed and a great mobilizer of the masses, is denigrated by scholars for what seem to be petty ideological reasons.
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Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World
The infusion of various Indic ideas and practices played a pivotal role in the development of the Graeco-Roman civilization.
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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.
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Bhagvada Gita and violence (Part 2)
Understood in its philosophical context, the final word of the Gita is a call for oneness, harmony and the greater good of all.
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Purushartha and Punishment
A shift in education from rights based approach to a focus on fulfillment of purusharthas will lead to a paradigm shift in the way we function as a society.
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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.
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Why Swadeshi Indology?
Indians must take ownership of their own culture and heritage if they are to prevent it from getting digested and distorted by scholars who have no inkling of the real ethos of our tradition and who use alien theoretical approaches to interpret Indian texts.