Kashmir is in the news, and it has been in the news for 70 years now. Yet its mindshare among Indians is still somewhat low and its centrality to Indian civilization and culture is woefully ...

Often the debate is centred on what exactly won India her freedom: was it the numerous militant protests? Some would answer yes. Was it a result of years of constitutional tussle? Some would answer ...

The Pakistani military sucks at fighting – it has lost all four wars against India – but when it comes to lying, it’s in a league of its own. Throughout its short history Pakistan has attempted to ...

Our ancient land of Bharata is the cradle of Sanatana Dharma. This is the land where humans are born in order to undergo the churning due to karma – to simultaneously enjoy the blessings of punya and ...

The Rig Veda summarises the chief purpose of Vedic knowledge thus: ‘Assemble together, speak with one voice, let your minds be all of one accord…. Let all priests deliberate in a common way. Common be ...

There has always been a hue and cry over the alleged persecution of Christians in India, which in the past year has escalated, whereas the reality is otherwise. Almost all such instances have been ...

The abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India by the Hon’ble Home Minister of India, Shri Amit Shah last month has sparked number of debates, the most prominent of them being what shall ...

In the previous article we read about Europe’s discovery of Indian Astronomy in 1691, via the Siamese Manuscript, and the great curiosity and awe that it aroused among European scholars of those times ...

In 2006, the late Russian archaeologist Elena Kuzmina wrote a hefty book on the Origin of the Indo-Iranians (Brill, Leiden). It gives a very detailed history of the Andronovo culture and its ...

Amongst many allegations levelled by the critics against Savarkar, the following two are most prominent: Savarkar “apologised” to the British and consequently turned into a “British agent” as part of ...

So concluded Arnold Toynbee, the great historian who chartered the rise and fall of civilisations he identified on earth. He stated that the response to the challenges faced by a culture determines ...

In 1937, elections were held for the Constituent Assembly of India. This was on top of Provincial Governments already being run by Indians, not to mention many municipalities and municipal ...