Tagore’s Ode to Radha

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore was an ardent devotee of Krishna and has composed a lot of poems in his praise. Unfortunately, not many of his poems about Krishna have been popularized. The first collection of 22 poems composed by Tagore at the age of 16 in 1877 were all on Krishna. He composed these poems in […]Read More

Hindu world-sense and colonizing enterprise

(This is an extract from the book “The Beginning of Hindu Culture as World Power (AD 300- 600)” authored by Benoy Kumar Sarkar in 1916. Benoy Kumar Sarkar was a social scientist, professor, and nationalist. He founded several institutes in Calcutta, including the Bengali Institute of Sociology, Bengali Asia Academy, Bengali Dante Society, and Bengali […]Read More

A well of devotional eclecticism – The religion of the

(This is an extract from the book “The Beginning of Hindu Culture as World Power (AD 300- 600)” authored by Benoy Kumar Sarkar in 1916. Benoy Kumar Sarkar was a social scientist, professor, and nationalist. He founded several institutes in Calcutta, including the Bengali Institute of Sociology, Bengali Asia Academy, Bengali Dante Society, and Bengali […]Read More

Gautam Buddha was every inch a Hindu – Koenraad Elst

A popular meme of 20th-century caste politics in India is the image of Gautama Buddha as some kind of a social reformer. However, a serious study of Buddhist texts reveals that the political rhetoric around the Buddha is very misleading. Dr. Koenraad Elst shows that far from being a rebel, the Buddha was conformist par […]Read More