Darshana & Itihasa: The Civilizational Gaze

Reason is not the ultimate way of arriving at the truth, the laws of morality are not final. Both reason and morality are subjective; both a...

The idea that leftism is anti big business is a myth.  The reality is that the supporters of leftist ideology have been driving the global e...

Sri Aurobindo In 1920, Sri Aurobindo said that Mahatma Gandhi’s political method, founded on Tolstoy’s ideas, could lead to the imposition o...

Rama story carved in wall of Shiva temple Ellora Caves, 8th Century On the day of Vijayadashami, the festival signifying triumph of good ov...

"No army can stop an idea whose time has come."  This saying, often attributed to Victor Hugo, smacks of the "hindsight is 20...

Parvati and Dancing Shiva  Ellora cave Vishnu is the collectivist, Shiva the individualist. In his avataras, Vishnu builds great coalitions...

In the 1980s, the American CIA funded, trained, glorified and armed the Taliban in Afghanistan because they wanted to use the Taliban to des...

All humans crave for land, but only a few quest for meaning. The ones who quest for meaning are capable of making fruitful use of the land. ...

The quest for perfection is futile. Even the powerful Gods cannot create perfection in the universe. In the Bhagavad Gita , Lord Krishna rem...

Every birth is a rebirth, every death is a redeath. This applies to everything inside the universe and to the universe itself.  Every entity...

In ancient Indian astronomy, the asterism of the Big Dipper is described as the physical representation of the Saptarshi, the seven sages wh...

Goddess Saraswati  (10th century) The idea that man is a rational creature is a myth propagated by the power-hungry intellectuals and polit...

Lord Kalki, an avatara of Vishnu, appears at the final or ultimate moments of the Mahayuga.  Metaphysically, Lord Kalki represents the end o...

John Galt, the central figure in Ayn Rand’s  Atlas Shrugged , is often hailed as a prophet of radical individualism and the quintessential l...

Started reading Rajiv Malhotra's book Being Different yesterday. Now on Chapter 3.  This book is full of arguments against the postmoder...

Raja Ravi Varma’s Painting  of Bhima Arjuna, the third among the Pandava brothers, is viewed as the greatest warrior of the Mahabharata . Bu...

Shiva enters the Mahabharata as the god of fire and vengeance, the ascetic who destroys yet also grants the strength to destroy. Though the ...

Vyasa with Satyavati (Geeta Press Illustration) The Mahabharata is conventionally understood as the epic of a fratricidal war between two ...

In his tweet on 17 December, Matt Taibi said: “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary… The #T...

Statue of Krishna and Arjuna in chariot Kurukshetra (Haryana) The Mahabharata ends with the defeat of the Kauravas and the victory of the P...

Vishnu and Lakshmi on Garuda (12th century sculpture) A major difference between Hinduism and the Semitic religions is in the area of the m...

Copy of Bande Mataram Edited by Sri Aurobindo September 1907 Shri Aurobindo viewed nationalism as the work of God. In his lecture delivere...

Stamp Dedicated to the Sanskrit College (Issued in 1999) In 1823, work began in Calcutta to build a new Sanskrit college. Ram Mohan Roy was...

Statue of Mohini (Avatar of Vishnu) The devas (Gods) can be defined as the beings who drank the amrita (the elixir of eternal life), and th...

Shankaracharya with disciples Painting by Raja Ravi Varma Of the six schools of Hindu philosophy (Vaishesika, Nyaya, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimansa...

Birch bark manuscript from Kashmir of  Panini’s Rupavatara Panini (about 800 BCE) was the last of the Vedic grammarians. Several grammarian...

P. V. Narasimha Rao The irony of India’s modern history is that its strongest political and economic reforms were carried out by its weakest...

During the Vedic age, the tallest peak of the Himalayan range—what the modern world calls Mount Everest—was known as  Naubandhana , “the bin...

Netanyahu and Modi Tel Aviv 2017 In his article, “Trends Are Bad, Events Are Worse, But ‘Trevents’ May Surprise Us” ( Bloomberg ; October 2...

It has been claimed that journalism is the “first draft of history.” We the people of the present know how incomplete, biased, opinionated, ...