2024
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Desire and Restraint In the Ramayana
The first major Sanskrit work to speak of love, especially marital and extramarital love, is Valmiki’s Ramayana.
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Gluttony Of Glamour
If one sees television serials today, you see this desire and gluttony for glamour. It’s not enough to be rich. It is important to show that you are rich.
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Was Vedic Manu the Original Leftist?
When we defend dharma, dharma defends us. When we protect the weak, we are protected by the strong.
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Trust In Currency
Does the buyer trust the value of the token being given to him by the seller? Today, we trust a number appearing on a screen as money. That is how much we trust technology.
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How Brahmin Bureaucrats Thrived In Islamic Kingdoms
Hemadri Pandit feared the imminent arrival of Islam in the Deccan region. They had, by his time, already controlled the rich Ganga river plains. To protect the threatened Brahmin culture Hemadpant wrote the “Chatur-varga-chintamani ” (popularly known as Hemadri-shastra) -…
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Was Brihaspati the Patron Of the Charvaka Materialists?
How do we prevent our sense-organs from leading us astray? That was the concern of the spiritualists. For materialists, the spiritualists were people seeking power by controlling others.
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Kingdom Is Responsibility, Not Property
Dharmic Leadership (is) different from Conventional Leadership. Dharmic Leadership is not prescriptive. It is introspective.
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No Leather In Temples, But Silk?
Recently, at a temple, a monk wearing ochre-saffron, to advertise his ‘celibacy’, yelled at a girl for wearing a leather belt and entering the temple. Somehow, he had given himself the authority of purity. It struck me how this arrogant…
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How the Kama Gita Evolved to Become the Kama-sutra
Everyone mentions Krishna’s Bhagavad Gita from the Mahabharata, but no one talks about Kama Gita also found in the Mahabharata.
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Cheraman Juma Masjid, the Temple-like Mosque of Kerala
Mosques were built by sailors during the lifetime of the Prophet, since the 7th century, along the coasts of India. The most famous of these is the Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala’s Thrissur district, widely believed to be the oldest…
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Unlock the Magic of Myth: T-shirts from Devdutt Pattanaik
Dive into a blend of mythology and art that’ll make your feed pop! Trust us; you don’t want to miss out on these vibrant visuals.
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Retroflex Sounds of Indian Women
Women came to India as part of the Out of Africa migration about 50,000 years old. Their legacy is the retroflex sounds () that is part of the Indian language.
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Three Dimensions of Greatness
Wisdom prevails only when we listen to each other, find ways to accommodate each other, which is why the Jain community survived despite great hostility in its long history.
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Giving Tilak His Due
The idea of Aryans coming from outside is often seen by nationalists as a racist idea fabricated by Europeans, such as Max Mueller and John Marshall. They ignore that the original nationalist, Bal Gangadhar Tilak proposed this same idea in…
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That Holy City Which Never Unites
As we march towards constructing that single city, using social media, it feels like a new Hinduism is being forged, one that erases the female principle.
