Pakistan: Two Hindu sisters kidnapped in Sindh’s Ghotki district on Holi eve
On the day of Holi festival, people of Daharki town of Sindh’s Ghotki district took to the streets on Thursday to protest against yet another case of Hindu girls being…
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If Modi was a pill, he would never come sugar-coated
The fortune-teller and the forecaster, each indignant at being clubbed with the other, rarely get it right in Bharat. The world, for example, hasn’t ended yet, though some might believe we’ve…
An Army Veteran writes – “Had I been the captured Wing Commander, my appeal to my countrymen would be…”
I am a Soldier, a Soldier of the Indian Nation and am proud of being one. I know what I am doing and have been trained to do so, since…
On The Question of What It Means to be a Hindu Philosopher
In early December, I sat down with a member of my PhD cohort and had a conversation over coffee about what it means (to me) to be a Hindu. This…
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 3
The Axis and the Perimeter The Agniksetra or the later temple plan of the Vedic ritual represents two significant numbers, 180 and 54, which, when doubled, correspond to astronomical knowledge related to…
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 2
The Altar as a Representation of the Cosmos The Śatapatha Br. informs us that the altar is to represent the mystery of time. Its dimensions are to represent earth. “As large…
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 1
Canonical texts describing the plan of the Hindu temple allude to its astronomical basis, and in this Bharatiya sacred geometry is not different in conception from the sacred geometry of…
Mamata pushes West Bengal to brink of anarchy
An unprecedented situation has been created in Bengal on 3rd Feb, 2019, unheard of in independent Bharat, by none other than Ms. Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal….
The power of one, in the path of Dharma
As I enter the house with my sister, I’m greeted by a frail yet clear voice reciting the Vishnu Sahasranaamam. I wash my feet, then sit next to my mother,…
Armed with High Court order, “progressives” violate yet another tribal custom in Kerala
Malayalam Newspaper Janmabhumi has reported that the Government refused to let the people of the Kani tribe make their customary poojas at their holy hill of Agastya Mala in Kerala, on Tuesday, January 15….