Aravind Subramanyam: A sacred quest of a Shasta devotee
Temple activist, scholar, researcher and author of ten books on the Shasta tradition, Shri V. Aravind Subramanyam’s Maha Shasta Vijayam is a 500-page Purana on the Shasta traditions…
Appropriation
Twitterati correct VP Venkaiah Naidu’s misguided “Yoga has no religion” notion
The Vice President of Bharat’s official twitter handle made an interesting tweet last night – Yoga has no religion. It is an art as well as a science. — Vice…
Yoga is a deep spiritual system, a journey into ancient Bharat
Yoga is a deep spiritual system of attaining ultimate union with the Divine, a timeless journey into the history of ancient Bharat. Although yoga has become a global symbol of…
Westerners Stealing Hindu Intellectual Property is More Than Plagiarism
Colonial or a white supremacy mindset may be clever enough to adopt Hindu practices but denies giving credit where it is due. Stealing Hindu intellectual property, they do not hesitate…
Bharatiya Traditional Knowledge: A Public Policy Perspective
Recently, twitter witnessed huge outrage over an article tweeted by American Scientific Association which referred to the ancient yogic technique of Pranayam as “Cardiac Coherent Breathing”. This article raises the…
Lakhs of Bibles planned to be distributed at Gangasagar Mela, Bengal’s largest Hindu pilgrimage
Gangasagar mela is West Bengal’s largest annual Hindu fair and pilgrimage, where lakhs of devotees gather on the day of Makar Sankranti to take a holy dip at the confluence of river…
Science and Religion
When I was in high school in Germany, I had a recurring phantasy. I imagined that some fine day the anchor in the news broadcast announces that science has found…
Hindu Dharma and New Thought Movement in the US
Hindu bashing in the US has been going on for over a century. Katherine Mayo’s infamous book Mother India (1927) comes to mind. Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History…
Mischief on Yoga day
2014 is a momentous year for Bharatiya culture. It was the year that Mr. Narendra Modi took up office as the fourteenth Prime Minister of Bharat. Within the first six…
Yoga is ‘pre-Hindu’, Does Not Lead to God: Kerala Catholic Church
In a statement calculated to discredit the very core of Hindu Dharma, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of Kerala has said that practising Yoga does not lead to God and that Yoga…