If India is to rise once again, it needs to follow the path that has sustained it for millennia.
Category: ESSAY
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The Eternal Dasas of Sree Padmanabha Swamy – II (A Glimpse into Ancient Times)
Various rulers across kingdoms have been in service of Sree Padmanabha Swamy.
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On the meaning of the Mahabharata – Early Rebuttal to German Indology (Part 2)
A lack of cultural grounding and humility has led to serious comprehension issues for most western reviewers of the Mahabharata.
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Appropriation of the Bengali identity, personified in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib
A critical look at how the 'Greatest Bengali of all time', who was part of the Great Calcutta Killings, singularly represents the appropriation of the Bengali identity.
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Sri Aurobindo, Spiritual Nationalism, and Indian Renaissance – I
As an independent nation-state, India still needs to heed Sri Aurobindo's advice to truly be free.
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The Eternal Dasas of Sree Padmanabha Swamy – I
The dasas of Sree Padmanabha have for millenia been in service of their master.
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Is the Hindutva movement casteist? – Part 2
The need to forecefit Hindutva into an ideological box has made criticism of it weak
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Caste and the discourse of Casteism
Shudras in pre-colonial India were totally different from how they are seen in the popular imagination of modern India leading to a perverted discourse that looks for solutions to the problems of the marginalised sections of society in the vague past instead of the concrete present.
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5th August 2020 – A Day of Independence From Fear
The Ayodhya Temple marks a day of independence from the shackles that have bound Hindus for far too long.
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The Bodh Gaya temple controversy
The Ambedkarite neo-Buddhists hatred towards Hinduism led to a movement for the “liberation of the Mahabodhi shrine”.