Author Manu S Pillai dives deep into primary and secondary sources to show the trajectory modern Hindu identity formation followed.

Jacobsen notes in Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition, the Vedas are barely interested in specific sacred sites ... Oddly enough, though, the Manusmriti (Book eight verse 92) claims that pilgrimage ...

God chooses Bezalel, his assistant Oholiab, and every skilled craftsman that God has found (male or female) (Exodus 31:1-6). Skilled craftsmen, like God, are creative. They, like the Sabbath, are the ...

The practice of untouchability is most visible during the cremation. Again, no pundit would perform the funeral and read ...

In Gods, Guns and Missionaries, Manu S Pillai takes on the monumental task of encapsulating the complex, ever-evolving ...

Jacobsen notes in Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition, the Vedas are barely interested in specific sacred sites. In fact ... either in pamphlet form or in well-produced coffee table books. By the late ...

In his new book Nalanda, breathtaking in its sweep ... devoted not only to the study of Buddhist texts but of Hindu philosophy, the Vedas, and theology in general; logic, grammar and linguistics ...

At sixteen, not only had he mastered Veda, the ancient sacred books of Hinduism, but he had also read Koran, the sacred book of Islam. He then got acquainted with some Sadhus who taught him Yoga. A ...

Terming ‘Manusmriti’ a holy book the Allahabad High Court has recently denied to quash an FIR lodged against Rashtriya Janata Dal Spokesperson Priyanka Bharti who accused of tearing its pages ...