We often walk past temples, visit homes, or attend ceremonies in India and see beautiful, often mysterious symbols. From the ...

A new framework proposes India’s civilisational resurgence through cul urally rooted governance and ethics In a world increasingly defined by materialism, cultural dislocation, and fractured ...

Walk into any Indian temple or flip through a book of Hindu mythology, and you're likely to find yourself face-to-face with a divine figure boasting ten arms, multiple heads, or riding a majestic ...

Swami Vigyananand, an IIT graduate-turned-monk has penned a treatise drawing knowledge from sacred books, vedas and other classical hindu texts. With a name similar to election time promises made by ...

The Hindu Manifesto, a new book by IIT alumnus and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Joint General Secretary Swami Vigyananand, will be released by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat on ...

Next time someone says they have “read the Vedas" and know it’s full of mad and violent stuff, just ask them if they have read Stairway to Heaven (point being: Veda is not a book, but a primarily ...

As Jacobsen writes in Pilgrimage in The Hindu Tradition, in the later layers of the Mahabharata, dating to the 2 nd to 4 th centuries CE, pilgrimage appears as a fully-evolved tradition. Pilgrimages ...

Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity is Manu S Pillai’s fourth major offering. The title of the book is ambitious, but the scope has been delimited by Pillai ...

In a new book, we have an introduction to 11 Great Souls, saints and seers of Hinduism: * Meerabai * Adi Shankaracharya * Soordas * Tukaram * Kabirdas * Ravidas * Andal * Ramanujacharya * Purandara ...

But the Vedas are the oldest of all existing religious texts dating back nearly to 5000 years. This fact cannot be denied nor can it be erased. India is a Heritage country. ... BHAGAVAD GITA and other ...

Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not. Sacred texts mean different things to different religions—sometimes they’re essential to ...

The study of Hinduism reveals much more than the narrow ideas of the Vedic corpus. Yet it was the Veda that was privileged by the British, who were looking for a Hindu “holy book”.