Niṇyāvacāṁsi: Essence of the Vedas
Veda is not knowledge of Satya - the Absolute Truth. It is Satya itself! That may seem like a fairly inaccessible statement, ere the expansion and exposition of its nuances that I intend to undertake in this essay. Many identify the ritualistic...
Praṇavārth: Brahman, Manifested
Praṇava (प्रणव) - ॐ holds a position of paramount importance in Dharma. It is the sacred sound that has become the primary spiritual symbol of Dharmic traditions, over millenia, having been chanted either independently or before a spiritual...
Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya- Jyotirma Tamasogamaya
Chennai : They say that you must not speak ill of the dead. Going by this logic, I suppose we mustn’t use strong words about Adolf Hitler, Attila or Chengiz Khan. If you subscribe to that school of thinking, pray do not read further. I seldom write...
RAMNAVAMI
Manchester : Birthdays are an occasion of joy. Nearly a billion people celebrated one such joyous occasion on the 2nd April 2020. In Hindu religion, Vishnu is the protector of this universe. He takes birth through the various ages to protect the...
Viśiṣṭvividhīkaran: The Principle of Qualified Diversification
The duality inherent in the Supreme Reality is idiosyncratic and paradoxical: it is contextual and yet transcendent. Advaita Vedanta speaks of the material realm as being illusory, and a manifestation of the Supreme Reality under the influence of...
Jñanagaman: The Turn of an Age
The Coronavirus has brought a spurt of death and destruction in its wake. Having come to the fore in Wuhan - China, it has been spreading at an alarming rate, having crossed 5,00,000 cases worldwide. While it has not caused anywhere close to the...
CAA, NRC AND LESSONS FOR THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT FROM THE ROHINGYA CRISIS – PART 2
The Background: There has been a long history of Muslim-Buddhist animosity and clashes in the Rakhine region. The province of Rakhine lay between the largely Islamic eastern part of the “suba(province) of Bangal (Bengal)” of the Mughal empire and...
Padma Awards 2020 – full list
Governement of India has announced Padma Awards for this year. The list comprises of 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri Awards. 12 people has been awarded Posthumously. The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award of...
CAA, NRC and Lessons for the Indian Government from the Rohingya Crisis – PArt 1
The partition of India by colonial Britain in 1947 on the basis of Islamic majority regions resulting in the formation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (with Islam as its official religion) has left a deep...
NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE – THE PHILOSOPHER
Basingstoke : An unexplored side of Netaji on his 123rd Birthday that of a great philosopher. Some excerpts from from the final chapter of Netaji’s unfinished autobiography - “My faith”. “....There was a time when I believed that Absolute Truth was...
