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The two streams of the Bengali language: Claims, Counterclaims and Facts
March 27, 2026March 27, 2026COMMENTARYBy Dileep Karanth2 0

The two streams of the Bengali language: Claims, Counterclaims and Facts

Published in the ISPAD Partition Center Journal (Oct 2025), this paper challenges claims that vernacular languages in India emerged only under Islamic rule due to a supposed Sanskritic monopoly. It shows that regional literary traditions flourished under Hindu patronage well before this period. The paper also disputes the idea that modern Bengali was artificially Sanskritized by colonial institutions, demonstrating that both Hindu and Muslim writers historically used a shared Sanskrit-based linguistic framework. It further highlights that later attempts to Islamize Bengali had limited success.

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The Mahabharata as an Indic Civilizational Framework: Dharma, Power, and Human Consciousness
March 15, 2026March 15, 2026COMMENTARYBy ISKCON Mayapur3 0

The Mahabharata as an Indic Civilizational Framework: Dharma, Power, and Human Consciousness

The Mahabharata is not merely an epic or religious text but a civilizational framework through which Indian society has long understood power, morality, and human conflict. Rather than offering rigid moral binaries, it presents dharma as contextual and relational, shaped by responsibility and awareness. Through complex characters and difficult choices, the epic explores the burdens of power, the psychology of action, and the consequences of ethical failure. In doing so, it functions as a living guide to navigating moral ambiguity within society.

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Nuwari of a Story!
March 08, 2026March 8, 2026STORYBy Charu Uppal1 0

Nuwari of a Story!

A single mustard-and-maroon saree becomes the thread weaving together generations of memory. As a mother recounts its journey - from saree to half-saree, curtain, cushion cover, and album cover—her daughter discovers how fabric can carry family history. Each transformation holds laughter, sisterly love, and the ingenuity of making do with what one has. In the end, the saree becomes more than clothing - it becomes a living archive of relationships, creativity, and continuity.

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Inventing the Oppressor: Social Theory and the Logic of the UGC Regulations
March 05, 2026March 5, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Aryan Anand2 0

Inventing the Oppressor: Social Theory and the Logic of the UGC Regulations

Aryan Anand argues that the debate around the recent UGC guidelines has remained confined to immediate political reactions, ignoring the deeper intellectual frameworks shaping such policies. Drawing on strands of critical social theory, he contends that contemporary policy increasingly operates through rigid oppressor–oppressed binaries. Applied mechanically to the Indian context, this framework risks misreading the complex realities of caste and society. Anand suggests that policies built on such assumptions may ultimately deepen social divisions rather than address them.

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Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?
March 02, 2026March 2, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Sriram Chellapilla0 0

Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?

Was A.R. Rahman’s reference to a “communal thing” in Bollywood a careless gaffe—or a calibrated signal within a larger minority-progressive discourse? Situating his remarks within a broader pattern of celebrity secularism, this essay argues that selective invocations of intolerance often coexist with studied evasions on questions of history, identity, and civilizational memory. Rahman’s diplomatic silences—on Aurangzeb, on cultural politics, on ideological alignments—appear less accidental than strategic. The result is a familiar cycle: grievance, outrage, clarification, and international amplification. At stake is not merely celebrity speech, but the narrative framing of Hindu-majority India itself.

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Vivekananda’s Teachings on Character-Building

Vivekananda propounded ‘man-making education’ which involves the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.

In ESSAY

Kashmir: An Overview of the Seven Exoduses of Hindus (Part 3)

The final exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from their homeland was complete, centuries after Islam put the holy land in its crosshairs.

In POETRY

Sung by God: V (The Way of Renouncing Action)

Renouncing fruits of actions, the yogi attains to supreme peace.

In PERSPECTIVE

Tyranny of Asceticism: Case of the Charvaka

Charvaka has long been dismissed as a philosophy of excess, yet this caricature stems from an ascetic worldview that treats pleasure as inherently suspect. When perception alone is accepted as truth, morality need not depend on divine command but on an intrinsic human compass. The author contends that the Charvaka tradition reminds us that seeking material pleasure is not a fall from grace, but a legitimate way of living without forfeiting moral sense.

In BOOK REVIEW

Isopanishad

The Isopanishad with just 18 verses is the most power-packed text to begin our journey of svadhyaya.

In ESSAY

Tyaga – The Vitalizing Force of the Indic Civilization

Introduction “If you can’t practice it, don’t cheapen the ideal. Say that you aren’t strong enough” Swami Vivekananda said of...

In ESSAY

Ajanta and Ellora – Temples as Theme Parks of Learning

Architectural wonders' significance should not be lost when compared with structures whose benefit is seemingly much more palpable.

In ESSAY

The untold foundations of Modern Economics: Did Adam Smith plagiarise Kautilya?

The founding father of modern economics had essentially copied Kautilya's work without giving any credit.

In COMMENTARY

Devadasi – The Fallen Idol

Once sought for their extraordinary talents in the creative arts, now reduced to a forgettable chapter in India's history, the Devadasis have endured it all.

In ESSAY

The Purpose of Defending Dharma

Dharmic principles form the bedrock upon which Indic civilization has thrived and hence need to be propagated as well as defended.

In INTERVIEW

Hindu and Muslim Rajputs and a pre-partition Panchayat: In conversation with my grandfather

The relationship between Hindu and Muslim Rajputs was one of camaraderie during pre-independence times.

In ESSAY

The Ayodhya conflict solved

Secularists still find it hard to spell out the obvious solution to the Ayodhya conflict.

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In COMMENTARY

Down with Birthdays!

Birthdays may be celebrated but not necessarily at the expense of tradition. Now that the grand Bhumi-pujan at Ayodhya is behind us, perhaps it can be stated without dampening the spirit of celebration that the choice of the date was an avoidable controversy.

In ESSAY

Future of India: How much have we delivered?

Swami Vivekananda's speech on the future of India more than a hundred years ago has lessons which we have failed to learn.

In EXCERPT

The nature of physical reality

In this book, Subhash Kak explores the intriguing questions at the cutting edge of consciousness studies. He not only presents the parallels between Vedanta and modern science but also spends a good deal of time exploring where the two profoundly disagree with each other and why.

In BOOK REVIEW

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene – A Review

In this review of the book "48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene, Rohan Raghav Sharma reviews the relevance, appropriateness, and applicability of individual rules mentioned in the book; along with the writing style and historical research needed for the examples and allegories mentioned to illustrate practical implementation of the rules by historical figures.

In COMMENTARY, ESSAY

Śaṅkara Charitam – A Re-telling – Chapter – 01

Shri Ramesh Venkatraman delves into detail about the life and the times of Jagadguru Shri Adi Śaṅkaracharya, and his impact on Sanātana Dharma, on the basis of his study of two authoritative texts on Śaṅkara: The Mādhaviya-Śaṅkara-Digvijayam of Jagadaguru Śri Vidyaranya Mahaswami, 12th ācārya of Dakshinamnaya Sringeri Sharada Peetam; and Śaṅkara Charitam, a collection of talks given by the Paramācārya of Kānchi, Jagadaguru Śri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, the 68th Jagadguru of the Kānchi Kāmakoti Peetha.
In the first chapter of the series of essays that will be published every Thursday (Guruvāsaram), we learn about the circumstances that necessitated the emergence of an avatāra-puruṣa in Kaliyugā.

In PERSPECTIVE

Dharma and Development : A Civilizational Balance

When development is not rooted in culture, a nation is reduced to just a geographical landmass. Development and culture are not mutually exclusive in the Indian civilizational context. Sanatana Dharma doesn’t ask us to choose between development and devotion to faith — it asks us to integrate them. Its Purushartha framework enables human fulfillment in every aspect of life, with Dharma as the guiding principle. From the Ram Mandir to the Kumbh Mela, what critics dismiss as distractions are often engines of economy, culture, identity, and belonging.

In ESSAY

An Indian Classics Curriculum

Classical Indian texts need to be introduced into the curriculum so that students are made aware of the massive strides their ancestors took in all fields of intellectual rigour.

In ESSAY

Buddha, Caste and Environment

The Buddha realised that the future of any civilisation depended on its relationship with Nature.

In PERSPECTIVE, FILM REVIEW

“Oppenheimer”, the Gita, and Dharma

Imbibing the spirit of true Dharma, one achieves communion with nature, the cosmos, and eventually the Supreme being. The eternal fight therefore, is not between good and evil, or between believers and non-believers, but between Dharma and Adharma.

In ESSAY

Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Part 3

Prophetic religions believe that there is a special God who has a special people, and who is known only through their special intermediary.

In EDUCATION, COMMENTARY, ESSAY

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy on Education in India

This article is a summary and paraphrasing of three of the important essays by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy on the English education of those times (Education in India; Memory in Education; and Music and Education in India).
These three brilliant essays appear in the book Essays in National Idealism. He wrote on an overwhelming variety of topics, which perhaps would require a lifetime of study for any individual.
The aim of this article is to stimulate readers to undertake a serious journey to the writings of Coomaraswamy, a person whose rediscovery means a lot to present India, confused by a mass of rhetoric eulogising the notions of "modernity" and progress.
The reality of a hundred years ago, that he highlights in these essays, is unambiguously still relevant to India, with its acceptance of both the English language as the major medium of instruction and secularism as the guiding principle of our curricula.

In ESSAY

Appropriation of the Bengali identity, personified in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib

A critical look at how the 'Greatest Bengali of all time', who was part of the Great Calcutta Killings, singularly represents the appropriation of the Bengali identity.

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