Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!
Today is “Ganesh Chaturthi” – birthday of BhagwAn Shri Ganesh (celebrated on the 4th day of Bhadrapada – usually Aug/Sept in Julian calendar). Ganesh-ji is widely revered as the remover of obstacles (“VidhnhartA”) and is...
Category: Spirituality & Philosophy
An Unsung Hero – II*
* NOTE: Sadly all the links in this post are broken. I do not think it discredits Brian’s work but I am looking for more robust references and details on Acharya Bose’s work on...
“Samay” hout balwaan
How many of you have heard the story of great warrior Arjun suffering an ignominious defeat at the hands of a gang of marauders*? I had a vague recollection of it but when someone...
The ridiculous extremes of pseudo-secularism
Fellow blogger Varnam recently wrote two posts on how learning Sanskrit is now considered to be a “communal” activity and something that might put you at odds with the “secular” brigade. In the first one,...
Must we separate religion from politics?
This post was inspired by Hrishi and Dnyanesh’s comments�which I am reproducing below. The point raised by Hrishi was (essentially) that democracy and politics (of the modern kind) is incompatible with religion… *** Comment...
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