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There was a point of time in mid March, when I, sitting in Europe, was jealous of the vaccination speed in India. India is still vaccinating amongst the fastest in

In this thread, I will discuss the colonial invention of the religion called "Buddhism". I will summarize some arguments from S.N. Balagangadhara's book "Do all roads lead to Jerusalem?" I

One aspect I am seriously worried about during this pandemic is data security of sensitive health data of individuals. Many people are posting public messages with the name, age and

This blog from http://Politico.eu has not translated the German conversation accurately. The video is here: https://youtu.be/aeCs_fQ_5UM?t=1468The mention about India is in the context of how Europe needs to be thinking

The reason why western medicine is not keen to give up the privilege of surgery to Āyurvēda (which bloody invented surgery in the first place) is that the superiority of

How do we call ourselves? This is a question that leads to some strangely amusing answers. But there is indeed a common thread that binds them.In this thread, I will

This is Bishop Robert Caldwell, celebrated missionary and scholar, who published in 1856 the "Comparative grammar of Dravidian or South Indian Languages". Link:https://archive.org/details/comparativegramm00caldrich/It has a large

In this thread, I will discuss the amazing power of Sanskrit Samāsas (compound nouns) and why they offer the ideal terminology for discussing complex ideas. All Indian languages borrow Sanskrit

Law exists in India only for the powerful to terrorize the weak. Never for the weak to get justice. The entire judicial system is overloaded with backlogs of cases. What

On today starts the Pitṛpaksha fortnight, when ancestors are venerated in Hinduism. Food offerings are made to the ancestors, who partake them in the form of birds.On this day, I

I periodically see arguments about how Rāvana, Mahābali or some other Asura in Purānic stories is a Brahmin. The arguments are often given as counter to colonial/missionary propaganda of racist

I am thinking more and more these days that Sanskrit and Hindi need not be seen as two different languages,but as two different registers of a single language continuum.Other Indian