‘Rudrānī’ – The Fierce Aspect of the Mother
Standing at the threshold of Dēvīpaksha let’s awaken the Great Goddess within, with the ancient chant, the first ever expression of Supreme Consciousness: ‘I Am That’
In ‘Dēvīsūktaṁ’ of the Ṛgvēda, composed by Ṛiṣhikā Vāgāmbṛñi.Continue Reading
The Sannyasi’s Siblings
Through his sisters’ lives, Swami Vivekananda, was sensitized to the experience of Indian women. He witnessed closely their pain and suffering and it evoked in him a deep regard for Indian womanhood.Continue Reading
Nishan Sahib on Red Fort: Past, Present and Fiction
What was raised on Red Fort on 26 January 2021, was the spectre of an unholy abrahamised edition of the Khalsa, and not the actual Nishan Sahib which became a symbol of fighting oppression, foreign rule and religious fanaticism.Continue Reading
Punjab Farmers’ Siege On Delhi
Images from the ongoing protests contain disturbing portents, of tractors being used to breakdown barricades and worse, attempting to run over police personnel, expose the dangerous intentions of these so-called protesters to use tractors as weapons.Continue Reading
Dealing With Chinese Adventurism
The Chinese believe in the Tianxia concept where their civilisation is assumed to be supreme, China being the centre of the universe, under the Chinese Heaven, and all countries on its borders populated by barbarians, fit only to be vassal states.Continue Reading
Military Excursion
Sagat Singh of 17 Division refused to obey Corps’ orders. He decided his men wouldn’t budge an inch from Nathu La, come what may…Continue Reading
In the Interest of History – 2
The controversy surrounding the question of the origin of the ‘Rajputs’ is as mired as it is infructuous. Whatever the origin of their clans might may have been: Indian or foreign, Brahmin or Kshatriya, the kings of these dynasties shouldered willingly the Kshatriya’s dharma to protect the body and spirit of their land, people and culture.Continue Reading
Śiva Śayana Ćaturdaśī Yātrā—Liṇgarāja Temple Bhubaneshwar
Śiva Śayana Ćaturdaśī Yātrā—Liṇgarāja Temple Bhubaneshwar, observance of an ancient tradition ceaselessly over centuries, a confirmation year after year of our commitment to the sacred beliefs that have provided succor and sustenance to the people of this land over millennia.Continue Reading
Resetting India’s National Security Vision
India’s most feted personality, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, though internationally acclaimed for his political philosophy, his ideology of complete non-violence and Hindu-Muslim unity at the cost of the Hindu did much damage to the nation and continues to bedevil it to this day…Continue Reading
The ‘Secularisation’ of Shivaji – 1
An accurate interpretation of the term ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ would be: Hindu Paramountcy… an assertion of the ascendance of Hindus in the lands of their ancestors, primacy of their civilisational ethos, religious values and cultural expressions to eradicate the corrupting and degrading influence and ignominious vassalage to Islamic rule. And there is not a single act in the career of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that deviated from this vision.Continue Reading
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah – III
The plant kingdom preserves all the five element, but it is vāyu that holds the first place in the scheme of things, for the simple reason that it is life itself…Continue Reading
The Abrahamic States of Hatred–I
The United States is quickly becoming the focal point of hatred for the world’s only surviving polytheistic religion, Hinduism, and America’s alt-Left have unwittingly joined hands with Islamofascists in a vitriolic campaign of racist hate — one that most Hindus have no idea even exists.Continue Reading
In the Interest of History – 1
“Every precept which was enjoined by the doctors of other religions he [Akbar] treated as manifest and decisive, in contradistinction to this Religion of ours [Islam], all the doctrines of which he set down to be senseless, and of modern origin, and the founders of it as nothing but poor Arabs, a set of scoundrels and highway robbers, and the people of Islam as accursed.”Continue Reading
Owaisi calling Muslims Dying of Corona-virus As ‘Martyrs’ is Dangerous
India just cannot afford to take its eyes off potential weaponization of Corona-virus by the adherents of a troublesome ideology.Continue Reading
Defining The Indian Outlook Towards Homosexuality – I
The advocacy of unrestrained freedoms has had a disruptive effect on the social fabric in the West and it does not serve us to uncritically apply these in our milieu without testing them against the ethical values and normative elements of our society.Continue Reading
Christmas Celebrations in Ramakrishna Mission Math(s)
The practice of celebrating Christmas at the Ramakrishna Missions has been repeatedly questioned by many people for its conscpicuous incongruity. The curious spectacle enacted each year by the monks of the order follows from a fanciful decision by the second head abbot of the order, Swami Brahmananda, which however lacks the sanction of the Master, the Holy Mother and Swami Vivekananda. Apart from being supererogatory to the mission’s aims, it is a perversion of Hindu philosophy of worship, both in worldly and monastic realms, and injurious to the interests of Hindu dharma as a whole. The author in a series of letters with Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi endeavoured to impress on the monk from the order these concerns, which regrettably remain unappreciated…Continue Reading
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah – II
There are verses in our Vēdas and Upaniśads that offer prayers to the Paṇća Mahabhūtas of appu/jala, tēyu/agnī, vāyu, pṛthvī and ākāśa. By living closely with the elements, our ancestors knew their moods and behaviour…Continue Reading
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah – I
Our ancestors possessed immense knowledge about factors affecting our lives and well-being. Using their common sense and by keenly observing every minute detail in their surroundings and natural forces, they learnt, assimilated and used the knowledge thus gained, to give us an invaluable legacy of health imbued with spirituality.Continue Reading
The Qur’ān, the Mu’mins, the Ahl-ul-Qitāb and The Kāfirs–II
“Law has its limitations, particularly in a country where its main corpus continues to be what alien regimes, Islamic and British, had devised for their own imperialist purposes.”Continue Reading
Rajarshi Rammohun Roy–II
Much popular fiction around Rammohun Roy’s personality was invented by those for whom it was useful to portray him as a religious eclectic and a rebel.Continue Reading
The Qur’ān, the Mu’mins, the Ahl-ul-Qitāb and The Kāfirs–I
“Low volume ethnic cleansing” – a trend of non-Muslim families forced to vacate their homes, pull out their children from schools and change neighbourhoods occupied by them.”Continue Reading
‘Haldighati’ The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – V
If assessed in terms of the competing objectives, the Battle of Haldighati can indeed be regarded as a Mewari triumph, because the Rana had successfully defended his territory, and the Mughal invasion had been a miserable failure.Continue Reading
Rajarshi Rammohun Roy–I
Raja Rammohun Roy with his gigantic intellectual and scholastic prowess, cogent representation of Indian religious, cultural and economic interests prevented the misapprehension and misconstruction of its cultural practices (including polytheism, idolatry, Hindu traditions and even ‘satī’) from being used against Indians. None among the Indians in that period possessed the brilliant faculties of Roy to hold rational and logical discourse in the European public sphere.Continue Reading
Ahalyabai Holkar
“It was, I trow, a joyous sight to see
Their noble Baee her seat of judgement fill.”
(‘Ahalya Baee’, by Mrs. Joanna Baillie)Continue Reading
‘Haldighati’ The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – IV
Emerging out of the dust and scrimmage, Man Singh noticed a looming spectre appear before him, and suddenly the towering figure of the Rana astride his trusty steed, Chetak, was upon him…Continue Reading
Sītā and Rāma – The Divine in the Connubial Paradigm
“Great literature rises above the closed semantics of parable. It nuances the themes and forces you to keep pondering. Discursive overdetermination is not what sterling literature seeks to establish. The imponderables of life are examined, and truisms are put to test. Literature seeks to loosen up dogmas and hard-boiled notions about roles and set human responses while demonstrating the power and peril of the choices Man makes.”Continue Reading
A Tribute to the ‘Shivbhushan’
Bedekar advocated genuine history writing based on original sources and evidences without propagandistic motives. He said: “Nothing should be written or said by a history researcher without proper documentary evidence”. His oeuvre is an invaluable contribution in emotive history-writing to awaken a people apart from being definitive reference material for corrective re-writing of our history, available to us through his books and speeches which must be translated into English and other languages and mainstreamed.Continue Reading
The Jallianwala Bagh Mercenaries and The Basis of Indian Nationhood
“India without Hinduism is nothing. A land mass, where invaders come and go.”
~ Ranjit Kumar DashContinue Reading
‘Terror Behind The Walls’ – The Penal Colonies (Part III)
The inhuman conditions, the excruciating daily grind, the soul-destroying sadism of its keepers was devised calculatedly to snuff out the will to live in the prisoners, leave alone continue a political struggle.Continue Reading
‘Haldighati’ The Thermopylae Of Rajasthan – III
The Battle of Haldighati can be seen as the precursor to the use of guerrilla tactics which was perfected into a most potent and efficacious form of warfare in later centuries by Maharaj Shivaji of the Marathas and his own descendent, Maharana Raj Singh I, against Aurangzeb.Continue Reading
India’s Burlesque ‘Ekatvam’
Communal amity requires the Hindu to forget the ‘Hindu holocaust’ of the past, ignore the overwhelming evidence of violence, even in current times.Continue Reading
Threat of Sino-Pak Biowarfare Partnership Projects
A brief study of Pakistani army’s history and the actions of the Chinese Communist Party indicates a strong possibility of such an unholy alliance.Continue Reading
Galwan Valley and the Dragon: Hitherto and Hereafter
A chat with an old soldier on an old dispute between a dragon and an elephant…Continue Reading