Jun 23, 2022
"Cash prize worth lakhs to peddle misinformation against India": Islamist group Jamat-e-Islami linked Indian American Muslim Council gives cash to ‘journalists’ from Wire, Newslaundry, Scroll Caravan etc, with a long history of lobbying against India
The Indian American Muslim Council, a radical Islamist group that has alleged links with banned terror organizations such as the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and has a long history of lobbying against India, has distributed cash prizes to ‘journalists’ from The Wire, News Minute, Newslaundry and other publications for furthering its cause.
Jun 23, 2022
"Varahamihira - ancient Astrologer, Astronomer and Mathematician": His encyclopaedic knowledge and lively presentation of subjects, as dry as astronomy, made him a celebrated figure, discovered trigonometric formulas and Pascal’s triangle
Even thousands of years before, India had become famous and reached its pinnacle in astrological and astronomical sciences. Ancient Astrological works had been translated into many foreign languages. Ibn Batuta and Al Baruni were two prominent Arab travellers who had visited ancient India specially to pursue Astrology.
Jun 23, 2022
“Dharma is law in its widest sense—spiritual, moral, ethical and temporal": How Chanakya's Arthashastra shaped the Telling of Ancient Indian History and should be read simply for its sheer brilliance in the area of statecraft and economics
The Arthashastra is so much a part of modern Indian vocabulary on politics, economics, and society that it is hard to imagine that this was a book unknown to the English-speaking world until an old manuscript was discovered in 1904. It was translated and presented to the world by R. Shamasastry of the Mysore Oriental Research Institute in Sanskrit, in 1909, and in English in 1915.
Jun 22, 2022
"Haal kya hai dilon ka na pucho sanam, Aap ka muskurana gazab dha gaya": Congress goes gaga over RaGa smile, writes poems as Maha govt crumbles, ED continues questioning Rahul Gandhi on money laundering in National Herald Case
The political drama gripped the state of Maharashtra on Wednesday. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut hinted toward the dismissal of Vidhan Sabha after rebel Eknath Shinde attained the support of 46 MLAs in Guwahati. Shinde stated that he had no plans to float a new political party and that he has always been Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sainik.
Jun 22, 2022
Pratibha Patil, first woman President of India and a Sonia Gandhi aide, from her jet-set foreign trips with family entourages to personal possession of diplomatically exchanged gifts, always reflected an aristocratic demeanour during her presidency
With the NDA electing Droupadi Murmu as its Presidential Candidate, one is reminded of Pratibha Patil, the first woman to become the President of the Republic of India. While Murmu is already being hailed as a humble, grassroots face and is likely to become the first tribal woman President, Patil’s tenure is remembered to this date for all the wrong reasons.
Jun 22, 2022
"Aag lage chahe basti mein, Congress rehta apni masti mein": All India Congress Committee asks Gujarat MLAs to take part in ‘Satyagraha’ at party headquarters and protest against Rahul Gandhi’s ED questioning as Maharastra crisis deepens
Congress has called Legislators from Gujarat to go to Delhi on Wednesday 22nd June 2022 to take part in the ‘Satyagraha’ at party headquarters amid protests over Rahul Gandhi’s questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central government’s Agnipath scheme.
Jun 22, 2022
"Who is Hindu": In real sense, grand tradition can be defined and understood as ten thousand faiths gathered in harmony under a single umbrella is Hinduism, Sanatan Dharma, where dharma is the duty, and karma is our actual behaviour
Hinduism is a diverse tradition and very different from other monolithic religions. In the monolithic sense, it is defined by The Four Pillars. Faith (sraddha) is individualistic whereas religion (dharma) is collective, and so Hindus are encouraged to explore their faith, which is why there are more Hindu scriptures and textual opinions on spirituality than any other religion. There isn’t a single scriptural or spiritual authority to define matters of the faith for Hindus, unlike in some other religions with a central pontiff.
Jun 22, 2022
"Aum Maheshwaraya Namaha": Salutations to the Supreme Person, the boundless Being who wields his triune power for purpose of creation, preservation, and dissolution, the indwelling Spirit within all beings and unseen director of everything
It was Mahapralaya—the night of Brahma when nothing existed. There was neither night nor day, no light or darkness, neither joy nor sorrow. All animate and inanimate creation had merged into the infinite essence. There was neither sun, nor moon, nor planets. The whole firmament was one complete void, pulsating with life.
Jun 22, 2022
"Aum Mahadevaya Namaha - The Great Universal God": Sanatana Dharma forces human mind, time and time again, to accept the fact that Divine is all that exists, both clean and unclean, pure and impure, auspicious and inauspicious
In the bewildering galaxy of gods of the Hindu pantheon, Lord Shiva stands out as one of the oldest and best-loved. He is as old as the Indian culture, perhaps even older. At the time of the cosmic dawn, before the creation of man, he appeared as the divine archer, pointing with his arrow to the unrevealed Absolute. The world is his hunting ground. The universe resounds with his presence. He is both sound and echo. He is intangible vibration as well as an infinitesimal substance. He is the rustling of the withered leaves and the glossy green of the newborn grass. He is the ferryman who ferr...