The Pope was recently embroiled in controversy when five icons of Pachamama, the traditional deity of the Andean people of South America, were included in a prayer service in the Vatican.[1] This ...

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 ...

Harish Ganapathy: Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Madras Sri Jalakantheswara temple on the Delhi Avenue Sri Peeliamman Temple on the Delhi Avenue near ...

The tantra śāstras are an integral part of Hinduism, and provide spiritual practitioners concrete guidelines to achieve spiritual ascendancy. In terms of philosophical outlook, most of the tantras, ...

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 ...

The recent comments by Prashant Bhushan about Lord Krishna have enraged, I would say rightly, many devout Hindus. Surprisingly, when it comes to Lord Krishna, I saw that even those who often sit at ...

If I had any thesis, this consequence would be mine. There cannot be a consequence in my [thesis], as I have no thesis (VV 29).[4] The issue is, if the rejection of the intrinsic validity of a system ...

With regard to the establishment of categories, a generally agreed-upon maxim is that ‘validity of something can be established [P1] not by a mere proposition but by [P2a] providing definition and ...

The recent revelations that Jawaharlal Nehru snooped on Subhas Chandra Bose’s kin will go a long way exposing the first prime minister as a cunning politician. Generations of Indians have been fed on ...

A Prophet of Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes ...

1. Minor girl molested by Muslim goon Report: Surjo Chandra is a resident of Ram Dakua which falls under ward no. 7 of Sundergonj Municipality in Gaibandha district, Bangladesh. On 22 December his ...