I once asked my students at Jindal Global University about Mahatma Gandhis relevance in todays India. Gandhi is only a name and an image in India today, they commented coldly,

With a self-proclaimed Ambedkar bhakt at the helm of the government, the Dalits might have expected a modicum of directional change in policies towards them. Instead, the two years of

If you follow the literature of scientific research in medicine, you may have raised your eyebrows at the list of authors credited in an article that came out in the

Unless we are very, very careful, wrote psychologist-turned-artist Anne Truitt in contemplating compassion and the cure for our chronic self-righteousness, we doom each other by holding onto images of one

Debate around the words Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva is not new. Recently the assertion by Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalk (Supreme Dictator) of RSS that everyone living in India is Hindu and

During my adult life I have been doing my best to see a ghost, or even feel the presence of a ghostly being; but, apart from hearing about other peoples

Dear Shri Nanavati, Let me at the outset wish you a very happy new year 2017, Now about the issue of T&A forwarded by you. I was quite disappointed by

Feed back received from Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (ANS) activists indicate that there has been tremendous response from school going children from all over Maharashtra to say NO emphatically to crackers

I had a friend who used all kinds of questionable treatments including homeopathy. I asked her how she decided what to try. She said if a friend told her something

What is Rationalism? In Epistemology (the branch of philosophy studying the nature, sources and limits of knowledge) Rationalism is the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of

The bookThe Role Of The Bhagavad Gita In Indian Lifewas written by Premnath Bazaz (a Kashmiri Pandit and freedom fighter). I have searched high and dry for this book with

Let me assume hypothetically that Mahabharat is real history and Krishna was a god in human form: Gitopadesh and Reality check When we discuss the Gita, the thing that strikes

Ravi Shankars first major tryst with organised spirituality was a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who took an immediate shine to him. The next thing he knew, he was whisked

The politicians and the priests have always been in deep conspiracy, they have divided man. The politician rules the outside and the priest rules the inside: the politician the exterior