Ashtavakra's advice to King Janaka to free himself from the desire to react and connect with the universal divine energy within.
Year: 2016
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Ahilya’s Daughters
The story of Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, the austere queen who ruled from Maheshwar, near Ujjain and rebuilt, all over India, scores of temples that were destroyed by Muslim invaders.
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This business of naming
Renaming roads and buildings is an important exercise in decolonization and the urge is just another expression of language and cognition.
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Advancements from the Ancient Vedic Culture – Part 2
In this second part of a series on Ancient India, we delve further into the achievements from that golden period
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Non-ignorable ideas of a non-ignorable man
Examining the broad ideas in Tufail Ahmed's recent book, Jihadist Threat To India: The Case for Islamic Reformation by an Indian Muslim.
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Somnathpura Symphony
Exploring the unique beauty of an architectural wonder built by the Hoysalas, which was destroyed by Malik Kafoor's army in medieval times.
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Clearing the air: Rajiv Malhotra responds to R. Ganesh (full interview)
This point by point response to R. Ganesh involves a detailed discussion on the critique made by Ganesh of Rajiv Malhotra's latest book (The Battle for Sanskrit), which deals with the scholarship of American Indologist, Sheldon Pollock.
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India and the human cycle
How Sri Aurobindo's theory of human cycles applies to the contemporary world and what does the future look like for the east and the west.
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Advancements from the Ancient Vedic Culture – Part 1
First in the series of articles that explores the various achievements from the Vedic era that influenced civilizations across the world.