Restoring a sense of pride among Indian students is paramount, which can only happen if the curriculum undergoes a massive overhaul so that the original Indian genius can flourish again.
Author: Michel Danino (Michel Danino)
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Integrating India’s Heritage in Indian Education – Part 1
By turning their back on their rich cultural heritage, Indians have denied their own an education which not only gratifies the intellect but also the soul.
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India’s Impact on French Thought & Literature
A brief survey of the impact that the discovery of Indian literature, philosophy and spirituality had on French thought and literary movements from the 18th to the 20th century.
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Nature in Indian and Western Traditions
Nature loving Indic traditions should not tread the path of western materialism which is enforced by a greedy god and his urge to consume the earth's resources.
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Politics and the writing of textbook
A look at how history textbooks in India were shaped to suit the political narrative of those in power.
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Woman in Indian history: A few vignettes from epigraphy
Through the centuries, misconceptions have arisen about the role of women in Indian society, often neglecting to mention the diverse roles that they played.
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For the Love of Nature
Nature as the Divine Looking back as far as we can see, in the Rig Veda we find Earth and Heaven often addressed in union as a single being (dyáváprithiví) and honoured together; they are ‘parents of the gods’ (7.53), ‘father and mother’ but also the ‘twins’ (1.159); together they ‘keep all creatures safe’ (1.160)....
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Musings on Indian Unity
We could empirically define Hinduism as the result of a centuries-old peaceful, organic and decentralized interplay between Vedic and local cultures at all levels of Indian society, including the tribal one.
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Kali Yuga or The Age of Confusion – Part 2
The Indian genius always endeavoured to spiritualize all aspects of life, including the social and political. If spirituality was of any practical value, why should it be kept out of governance?
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Kali Yuga or The Age of Confusion – Part 1
We have allowed others, unfamiliar with or contemptuous of the truths discovered by millennia of yoga and sadhana, to think for us, speak for us, and ultimately to dictate to us.