Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is in the news for dubious comments made during an interview after his recent hit film Tanhaji: The Unsung Hero. I doubt my stardom constantly…
Time and again Bollywood has distorted historical facts in the name of ‘cinematic freedom’ and the latest example is the movie ‘Panipat’. It has now come to light that the…
In the wake of my celebration of Diwali, one of the most popular Hindu festivals, I cannot help but consider the implications of what it means to be Hindu in…
A former Jadavpur University (JU) student Manaswini Sen, presently pursuing Ph. D from University of Hyderabad, posted a decapitated map of Bharat with the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh…
In the previous part, we had gleaned through Hitopadesha to understand the message of the ancient Acharya of politics about ‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’, encapsulated in a pair of satirical fables. Far…
ayaM nijaH paroveti gaNanA laghu-chetasAM udAra charitAnAM tu vasudhaiva kuTumbhakaM [“This is my own and that a stranger” – is the calculation of the narrow-minded For the magnanimous-hearts however, the…
Champions of Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory (AIT) refuse to give up. With virtually nothing to show in support of their pet theory in linguistics, archeology or ancient texts and inscriptions, they…
Dharampal (The Beautiful Tree) has effectively debunked the myth that Dalits had no place in the indigenous system of education. Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras, ordered a mammoth survey…
On 25 June 1975, Bharat saw the extension of the external emergency, imposed since 1965 into the domestic affairs of Bharat. More than 25 years have passed; yet, the public…
In order to attain materialistic gains of money and fame, people these days start commercialising the valuable knowledge of Hindu Dharma without even reading it by themselves. One such “businessman”…