Doom and dharma
I often feel challenged when asked to speak at climate change gatherings. Especially so, at events like the five-day Rebel Camp that Extinction Rebellion recently held outside the Scottish Parliament….
Sanskrit
The Magnetic Pull of Bharat’s Soft Power
The word “soft power” was first coined by Harvard scholar Joseph Nye. He described this term as the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than using coercion which was called…
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…
Why This Columbia Graduate Built a Spoken Sanskrit Start-Up
While studying for a masters in global thought, Abhinav Seetharaman, a keen linguist, decided to incubate an online venture teaching people one of the oldest living languages in the world — Sanskrit,…
Non-Brahmin Priestesses Conquer Bias, Learn Sanskrit, Perform Puja
More than 150 non-Brahmin, semi literate women got Sanskrit degrees and became trained and certified priestesses over the past 18 years in and around Mohopada, a tiny village in Raigad…
Temples under Secular Government: Case study of Tripunithura
The ancient and rich temples of Bharat have been the birthplace of controversies ever since their administration was taken over by the secular government. The common accusation made by the…
‘दी बैटल फॉर संस्कृत’ (संस्कृत के लिए संघर्ष) – सारांश
बहुत समय से भारत से संबंधित (अकादमिक व सामान्य) लेखों में पश्चिमी दृष्टिकोण का प्रभाव रहा है। इन दिनों भारत के भीतर इस क्षेत्र में पश्चिमीकरण एवं पश्चिम की दखल…
Consideration of Bharatiya (literary) Classicism as depicted by Professor Sheldon Pollock
Professor Sheldon Pollock’s agency to redefine, and thereby attempt to limit, what will be seen as ‘classical’, ’classic’ about Bharat’s literature, and his centrality to the grand mission of presenting…
Sanskrit Language Enlightened The European Intellectuals
It is for the astounding richness of the Sanskrit language that William Jones, a British colonial judge and linguist, first translated Kalidasa’s Shakuntala from the original Sanskrit into English in 1789…
Western Indologists – A Study in Motives: Part 2
In Vikram Samvat (V.S) 1890 Horace Hayman Wilson became the Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the Oxford University. His successor Prof. M. Monier Williams has drawn the attention ….