Category: Spirituality & Philosophy

“The Idea of India” – *must read*

I am grateful to Sh Krishen Kak for allowing me to publish this essay by him (in full), first published as THE IDEA OF INDIA by India First Foundation, Nov 2008:127-138.  I would encourage...

Of Thiru Karunanidhi, Tilak and Secular Fundamentalism

….and a deja-vu moment. Courtesy Sridhar, this news-item from earlier today: Karuna does it again, flays Hindus for sporting tilaks Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a ’tilak’ on the...

Big Bang, Nataraj and end of the world

The “Big Bang” experiment seems to have started well and I am still able to write and post this…which can only mean that the world has not come to an end … I feel...

Spot the H-word

Thanks to Sh Nachiketa Tiwari for spotting this and Sh Kak for emailing it to me. Although this is a fairly long excerpt from an exchange of emails re. learning Sanskrit, pl. try and read in full. It shows...