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  • Indian Mathematics For the Ego

    Indian Mathematics For the Ego

    Published on 19th March, 2023, in Mid-day. To show how time is different for different …

  • How Jains Described Chanakya and Chandra Gupta Maurya

    How Jains Described Chanakya and Chandra Gupta Maurya

    Published on 18th March, 2023, in Economic Times. As per popular lore, Chanakya was a …

  • Pre-history of Aryans They Don’t Tell You

    Pre-history of Aryans They Don’t Tell You

    Published on 11th March, 2023, in Times of India. Nationalists on social media argue that …

  • Tibetan Ramayana

    Tibetan Ramayana

    Published on 12th March, 2023, in Mid-day. In the early 20th century, six incomplete manuscripts …

  • Are You a Harappan or Vedic Woman?

    Are You a Harappan or Vedic Woman?

    Published on 5th March, 2023, in Mid-day. Harappan cities thrived between 2500 BCE and 1900 …

  • Polytheism Enables Mother of Democracy

    Polytheism Enables Mother of Democracy

    Published on 4th March, 2023, in Economic Times. Monotheism propagates the idea of one God. …

  • Parshuram’s Tryst With Kshatriyas

    Parshuram’s Tryst With Kshatriyas

    Published on 26th February, 2023, in Mid-day. Parshuram was born in a Brahmin family of …

  • Diverse tombs of the rulers of Turkey, Iran and India show that the Islamic world was not homogeneous

    Diverse tombs of the rulers of Turkey, Iran and India show that the Islamic world was not homogeneous

    Published on 24th February, 2023, in The Hindu. After the sack of Baghdad in the …

  • Veda, Vedanga, Vedanta

    Veda, Vedanga, Vedanta

    Published on 19th February, 2023, in Mid-day. Hinduism can be divided into three major eras. …

  • Donation of Courtesans

    Donation of Courtesans

    Published on 17th February, 2023, in Economic Times. Chanakya’s Arthashastra talks about appointing a superintendent …

  • Diversity Amongst Brahmins

    Diversity Amongst Brahmins

    Published on 12th February, 2023, in Mid-day. Our textbooks teach us that Hindu society is …

  • The Forgotten Women Who Helped Shape Jainism

    The Forgotten Women Who Helped Shape Jainism

    Jainism follows the path revealed by 24 sages known as Tirthankara, who appear in every …

  • Oxus Between Harappans and Aryans

    Oxus Between Harappans and Aryans

    Published on 5th February, 2023, in Mid-day. No conversation about Harappans and Aryans is now …

  • Bhakti Is Devotion? Is Loyalty?

    Bhakti Is Devotion? Is Loyalty?

    Published on 4th February, 2023, in Economic Times. Most family business owners in India prefer …

  • How Gods, Demons Formed India’s Mountains, Rivers and Seas

    How Gods, Demons Formed India’s Mountains, Rivers and Seas

    Published on 28th January, 2023, in The Times of India. One of the ways you …

  • How the Gayatri Mantra, composed by men, heard by men, for a male deity, became embodied as a goddess

    How the Gayatri Mantra, composed by men, heard by men, for a male deity, became embodied as a goddess

    Published on 27th January, 2023, in The Hindu. Mantra is a carefully crafted sound formula …

  • View: Privilege to Saraswati at the cost of Durga & Lakshmi is an old Brahmanical hangover

    View: Privilege to Saraswati at the cost of Durga & Lakshmi is an old Brahmanical hangover

    Published on 21st January, 2023, in Economic Times. In America, the state serves the rich. …

  • In Joshimath, the question is: What is the cost of pilgrimage?

    In Joshimath, the question is: What is the cost of pilgrimage?

    Published on 12th January, 2023, in Indian Express. The pandas of Jagannath Puri in Odisha …