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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pleasure of Sanskrit
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination." - Ludwig Wittgenstein Marinating in the aftertaste of...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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101 on Hindu Scriptures
“Like Bible, Quran, Torah – what is the religious book for Hindus?” – I am sure many of you would have been asked this question. I...
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Preserve Sanskrit to preserve ancient Indian knowledge systems
Princeton University Professor Manjul Bhargava, is the first mathematician of Indian-origin to win the Fields Medal, the highest badge of...
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