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The Indian who docked at Osaka
The Indian diaspora in Japan has historically been small, but has encompassed a colourful cast, from revolutionaries to textile traders....


Fundamentals of Rajaneeti: Vedic approach to Politics
To understand fundamentals of Vedic approach to politics – Rajaneeti – it’s important to understand five words in Sanskrit vis-à-vis...


Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 1
As the science of language, historical linguistics in the early 19th century saw itself as providing a framework for studying the history...


A Neuroscientist Explores the "Sanskrit Effect"
A hundred dhoti-clad young men sat cross-legged on the floor in facing rows, chatting amongst themselves. At a sign from their teacher...


Ayurveda: The Ancient Practice That Healed With Turmeric Before It Was Cool
Next time you sip your turmeric latte, basking in its superfood glow, remember that turmeric may be trendy but it’s definitely not new....


Significance of Hindu Society
Hindu society is the only significant society in the world today which presents a continuity of cultural existence and functioning since...


India's own sacred ecology
The creation of a sacred geography for India was always a major instrument of her cultural integration. Not only the countless teerthas,...


Five ways ancient India changed the world – with maths
It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th...


Why India Once Led The Fashion Industry
India led the fashion industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Indian cotton fabric and design motifs swept the known...


Women in Vedic Culture
There are many civilizations in the world where respect for women and their role in society are prominent, and others where regard for...


Nature in Indian and Western traditions
I lived in the Nilgiri hills of western Tamil Nadu for over two decades, and as a beautiful tropical rainforest—a Shola, as it is...


Karma Yoga is not workaholism
Since the time Sri Krshna spoke the Gita on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, it has remained one of the most important foundational texts...


Why I'm learning Sanskrit?
“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks...


Pleasure of Sanskrit
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination." - Ludwig Wittgenstein Marinating in the aftertaste of...


Women In Indian history: A Few Vignettes From Epigraphy
Indian civilization and culture, many-faceted and infinitely involved by nature, lend themselves to the most contrary interpretations,...


Is Indian Culture Obsolete?
If I were to picture myself as a twenty-year-old Indian today, my answer to this question would have to be a harsh one. I would have to...


Hindu roots of modern ‘ecology’
Hinduism is the world’s largest ecology-based religion that recognises and seeks the Divine in nature and acknowledges everything as...


India and Mongolia - Shared Heritage
Author of more than 500 books, Vedic and Buddhist scholar Prof LOKESH CHANDRA, president, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, was...


How Sanskrit Led To The Creation Of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table
How the two-dimensional structure of Sanskrit could have led to the creation of the periodic table. It is an amusing fact that the...


The caste system is a colonial idea
It was primarily under colonial Christian rule that the caste system as we know it today was defined, shaped and a narrative built around...
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