Even the one with the least knowledge of Sanskrit, if Hindu, can tell that ‘Navratri’ literally translates to nine nights. These nine nights that falls between ten days of grand…
We assume you are busy pandal hopping, frolicking in fresh and fragrant new clothes, feasting or fasting depending on which part of Bharat you belong to. But have you ever…
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…
Bharat is an ancient civilization that enriched the world in a number of different ways and fields with its inventions and discoveries. Although Bharat is known as a land of…
I see a lot of people sending messages of Rest in peace “RIP” as soon as they hear about the death of a dear one. Yes, it is an expression of love,…
It has become fashionable nowadays to say or type RIP whenever we hear of someone’s death. This is particularly so in the social media circuit. Like we have imported and…
I must, at the very outset, express my sense of obligation to you for having afforded me this opportunity of addressing a few words to the graduates who, after qualifying from this University,
Be very careful to follow my instructions in avoiding the old kind of politics. Spirituality is Bharat’s only politics, the fulfilment of the Hindu Dharma its only Swaraj. I have no doubt we shall have to go …
She was an Irish woman who met Swami Vivekananda in London, and later came to Bharat to work with him. She became a celibate in 1898, when she was 31…