The Empress of India
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Read more: The Empress of India
“Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days is known as the Victorian era and was longer than any…
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The Experience of Bharatiyata
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Read more: The Experience of BharatiyataRecently I was at a function where there was a lot of talk about Bharatiyata. It struck me suddenly that everyone had a different understanding of what the word meant. Like the story of the blind men and the elephant.…
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Gurupurnima at Udhbhavaha
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Read more: Gurupurnima at UdhbhavahaUdhbhavaha, the alternate learning space in Bangalore, celebrated Gurupurnima today by giving out the first Dr. K.S. Narayanacharya award for writers promoting Bharatiyata. The event was jointly organized by Udhbhavaha and two publishing houses, Sahitya Prakashana and Subbu Publications. The…
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Convergent and Divergent Problems
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Read more: Convergent and Divergent Problems(Note: The following is a long extract from E.F. Schumacher’s ‘A Guide for the Perplexed’ relevant to this blog’s discussion on education.) Take a design problem—say, how to make a two-wheeled, man-powered means of transportation. Various solutions are offered, which…
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The Myth of Disenchantment
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Read more: The Myth of Disenchantment‘The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences’ is a 2017 book by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, a professor of religion at Williams college. The book argues that even in the West, the epicentre of…
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Svaraj In Ideas
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Read more: Svaraj In IdeasKrishna Chandra Bhattacharyya (1875–1949), the author of the essay titled ‘Svaraj In Ideas’ written in 1928, is perhaps the best-known academic philosopher of the colonial period. He held the King George V Chair (now the B. N. Seal Chair) in…
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Triprangode Shiva Temple
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Read more: Triprangode Shiva TempleYesterday I went to two very old temples in Kerala. First to the Navamukunda temple at Tirunavaya and then to the Triprangode temple a few kilometers from Thirunavaya. At Triprangode I discovered, to my surprise, that these two old temples…
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Fewer Talks
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Read more: Fewer TalksFEWER TALKS.MORE BREATHE! …said the byline to a large nice-looking hoarding I saw recently. The hoarding was for a real estate company selling apartments. The message that the copywriter wanted to convey, I thought, was that in this apartment complex…
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Thoughts on the Ramayana – Part 2
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Read more: Thoughts on the Ramayana – Part 2(This is part 2 of the reflections inspired by my YouTube conversation on the Ramayana with my friend Pranav. Available here) Nārada muni had confirmed to Vālmiki that it was possible for someone to have the sixteen guṇa-s, and Ram…
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Thoughts on the Ramayana – Part 1
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Read more: Thoughts on the Ramayana – Part 1(The following reflections are inspired by the conversation I had with Pranav on the Ramayana. Available here) I am finding the story of Ratnakar, the dacoit transforming to Vālmiki, the poet very interesting. Ratnakar used to loot and kill travelers,…
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People Like Us!
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Read more: People Like Us!There is this need that alternative-type people have of looking for a community of ‘People Like Us’. Maybe this is a need that everyone has but it is more noticeable in the alternative crowd because they are a small minority.…
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Ramayana Conversations with Pranav – 1
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Read more: Ramayana Conversations with Pranav – 1I have known Pranav for more than a decade, since our days in CEH at IIIT-Hyderabad. For some time, I have been wanting to have a series of discussions with him on the Rāmāyaṇa. Why Rāmāyaṇa? Like many, I have…
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