Today is Hanuman Jayanti- the day the Eleventh Rudra took birth in the embodied form on this earth. He is said to be a “monkey god” (which is technically incorrect because he is a Vanara, a celestial species which only looks like an earthly monkey, but is very different from them), and we humans are […]Read More
Having purchased and read James Laine’s Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India only after it was officially withdrawn by the publishers, I cannot view the events at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) as totally unjustified. Certainly, attacks on centres of learning have no place in Hindu ethos and must not recur. Yet, having gone through 105 […]Read More
A god of life’s loneliest stand, A portal to the boundless sky, A drop of gold on earthen lamp.Read More
Puducherry CM provides wrong translation to the opposition leader. During the opposition leader’s interaction with Fishermen, a woman had raised a complaint to Rahul Gandhi. And the Puducherry CM wrongly translates it as the woman is praising the government. This is a serious issue. This must have been true with our scriptures as well. Imagine […]Read More
Marginalia: *koi – The Climbing perch, Anabas testudineus ^gats – A melodic composition in Hindustani Classical MusicRead More
In an earlier post, I had briefly mentioned about collating a list of scriptural and sculptural evidences in the Dvaita tradition of Sri Madhvacharya, in order to complement the exhaustive list of evidences compiled by Ms. Meenakshi Jain, in her book “Rama and Ayodhya”. The present post is an attempt at the same. In the book, a […]Read More
This song of Rabindranath Tagore came to my mind almost immediately after I witnessed on live TV and the internet the desecration of the sacred symbols of the Indian Republic at the hands of various thugs on Republic Day, the 26th of January 2021. Read More
Most Hindus have no clear idea where their own religion fits in the global religious landscape. Even the most illiterate Christian or Muslim ‘knows’ that his religion was brought into the world in order to supersede all other religions, which are false. The Hindus’ grasp of their relation to other religions, even (and perhaps especially) […]Read More
It was the seventeenth day of the great war — the bhubhaaraharana kaarya of Sri Krishna was in full swing — ably assisted by the five Pandavas — and of course Ashwatthama. Karna had defeated Yudhisthira pretty badly, and the elder Pandava had to return to his camp to recover from the injuries, after being rescued by Bhimasena. Bhima sent Arjuna to the camp to enquire upon the elder one’s health. Arjuna and Yudhisthira […]Read More
Mahatma Gandhi was a heartless and manipulative tyrant without the redeeming feature of political merit. On the contrary, his vision for India was confused, he twisted the meaning of straightforward terms like Swarajya (independence) to suit his own eccentric fancies, he never overcame his basic loyalty to the British Empire, and he didn’t have the courage of […]Read More