The Path of Jnana Yoga
Yoga Samvād: Dialogues on Yoga, a series of insightful dialogues on Yoga, began with its first talk in the series—Dynamic spirituality through Jnana Yoga—co-anchored insightfully and elegantly by Swami Mitrananda…
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Sinu Joseph: Decoding menstrual practices with compatible frames of reference
In the second part of her interview, Sinu Joseph, menstrual educator, author and one of the pioneers of the menstrual health movement in Bharat, says, “We must begin by accepting…
Sinu Joseph: A Bharatiya perspective on menstruation
This is the first part of an interview with Sinu Joseph, menstrual educator, author and one of the pioneers of the menstrual health movement in Bharat. Her work on menstruation…
Roots and anchors: Rearming Hindu Parenting centred on Hindu Dharma values
Hindu Parenting, a Bengaluru-based unique initiative steered by its founder Rekha, is an effort to bring clarity to urban parents and children, to provide resources to busy parents…
White man’s bias in Wikipedia entry on Ayurveda is another consequence of digital colonisation
Common people consider Wikipedia to be one of the reliable sources of information on the internet. The site, which contains user generated and reviewed content, is supposed to be bias…
Bangladeshi blogger faces death threats for criticizing Islam, flees to Bharat
Asad Noor, an outspoken Bangladeshi blogger, who has been facing threats and intimidation from both state and non-state actors for supporting minorities and criticizing Islam, is living in exile in…
A liberating vision: Rediscovering Indic heritage through a dharmic lens
Exploring Indic heritage and its current reality through the lens of dharma was a provocative yet profound dialogue on the need to adopt a decolonised dharmic lens to view Indic heritage and traditions
The Traditionalist vs Reformer battle in Hindu Dharma is continuation of an old tradition
Discussion and dialogue has been the hallmark of Hindu Dharma. There have always existed different perspectives regarding social, cultural and religious issues. Indeed, the word ‘religion’ does not have the…
Inner transformation through the Mahabharata
As a seven-year-old, I sat under the mango tree in our home with my grandfather, as he helped me read aloud from C. Rajagopalachari’s retelling of the Ramayana and Mahabharata….
A perspective of US racial tensions from an African American Hindu leader
I grew up in the South during the 1950s and 60s. Those were troublesome times for the African American community. We were identified as Negroes and as an ethnic minority,…