Original essays written in English and approved translations from Hindi, newest edition first. Where a term of shastra matters in a translation, the Hindi original is authoritative.
329 articles
The Comptroller Auditor General in its report has said that there was short crediting to the Fund of the GST Compensation Cess collections totalling to Rs 47,272 crore during 2017-18 and 2018-19. This short-crediting was a violation of the GST Compensation Cess Act, 2017. Opposit
26 September 2020 · 3 min read
Prime Minister is going to formally inaugurate the construction of Shri Ram Janmbhumi Mandir. Some Muslims who were nowhere to support Hindus during this long struggle full of blood, toil, and tear to regain the Janmbhumi, are offering their contribution and saying that Shri Ram
30 July 2020 · 3 min read
Brahmins of Malav Republic: When the republics of Malvas and Kshudrakas made a confederacy to face Alexander, 5000 Brahmins from Malav republic left the pen for sword and died fighting. Only a few were captured. Brahmins of Musicanus (Mushika) and Oxycanus: When the two kings Mus
3 July 2020 · 3 min read
Yesterday's Sino-India meet delivered two things. First being China agreed to call back her PLA personnel to further mid-way of Indian LAC Claims and Chinese LAC Claims. Refer below the image "POINT C2". Recently, the Chinese PLA had set up a camp to C1 (refer image). During the
8 June 2020 · 1 min read
Valmiki had enough described about every question we probably can have and dealt them with great detail. People who talk without even looking into what has actually happened, criticize Rama and get away from Sita's mercy. Let’s not be a part of that mob and try to spread wisdom t
17 April 2020 · 9 min read
India definitely doesn't have a rape culture but it has been developing a rape outrage culture lately whenever any rape in a specific spatio-temporal context happens. The outrage is different for different sort of rapes which I don't want to dwell but the public opinion expressed
3 December 2019 · 2 min read
Swarajya recently published an article written by its senior editor on the issue of students of BHU protesting against the appointment of a Muslim faculty Firoz Khan. The protesting students were calling bigots who are threat to Dharma which rests on pluralism and assimilation. I
24 November 2019 · 3 min read
During the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar in 2010, a young Frenchman exclaimed, “Oh, it must have been so different than” when he came to know that I was in 1986 at the Kumbh Mela already. “No, it was not”, I realized. It was very much the same. It may have been the same for centuries. H
22 October 2019 · 3 min read
Intellectual integrity and truth are obviously unwanted in our times. These have been displaced by political correctness. Why this happened is a mystery, but mainstream media and other agencies vehemently enforce the politically correct opinion. They drum into us powerfully what
22 October 2019 · 9 min read
It seems truth cannot be told anymore. I had written an answer to the above question on Quora, but after over 11k views it was taken down, allegedly violating the “be nice, be respectful” policy. I cannot see anything objectionable in my answer. Why would they let it ‘collapse’?
22 October 2019 · 3 min read
Some years ago, I met an American from Seattle, who studied Sanskrit at the university there. He had come to India to meet his guru and had even taken an Indian name. He told me that westerners, including professors, at his university who had accepted Buddhism had no hesitation t
22 October 2019 · 6 min read
Common people in the west know hardly anything about India. But one thing they all know: India has an ‘inhuman’ caste system, which is an important feature of their religion, Hinduism. Most also ‘know’ that Brahmins are the highest caste, which oppresses the lower castes, and wor
22 October 2019 · 7 min read
It is no secret why the British replaced the indigenous education system and Sanskrit gurukuls with English education. They wanted to create a class of Indians who think like the British and in this way weaken India. Sanskrit culture und Vedic knowledge was the backbone of Indian
22 October 2019 · 10 min read
When I was in high school in Germany, I had a recurring phantasy. I imagined that some fine day the anchor in the news broadcast announces that science has found proof that God exists. This was at a time when doubts started creeping in whether it was true what I had believed so s
22 October 2019 · 26 min read
Yes, and it is even natural. One only needs to deeply reflect on what is meant by the Almighty. If somebody grew up as a Christian or Muslim, he needs, however, to get rid of some notions about the Almighty which can never be proven and are in all likelihood not true – for exampl
22 October 2019 · 5 min read
Is being a Hindu ok and is Hindutva not ok and even dangerous? Many Hindus seem wary to be associated with Hindutva, in spite of the fact that Hindutva simply means Hindu-ness or being Hindu. They tend to accept the view which mainstream media peddled for long: ‘Hindutva is intol
22 October 2019 · 8 min read
This was a question on Quora. Here is my reply: I assume you mean by God That which is upholding this universe, responsible for it, the highest authority. So the answer is: God is everywhere, including in us. This answer is based on the insights of the ancient Indian Rishis and m
22 October 2019 · 3 min read
I remember the autumn of 2008 painfully well. Only a few years earlier I had started to follow politics more closely and had subscribed to the Times of India. Several bomb blasts had happened in different Indian cities over recent years which had claimed many fatalities. The susp
22 October 2019 · 9 min read
During the release of my book “Thank you India” at the Dehradun Litfest last November, I met Hemant Kumar and his wife Monica. Meanwhile, he read the book and sent me his review. It is very well written. I post it here: A German, stops over in India on her journey to Australia ge
22 October 2019 · 7 min read
Media is not anymore about giving information. It probably never was. It is about influencing opinion to further the agenda of certain interests and lies are apparently an accepted tool. Lies are often disguised as surveys or even research. Nobody would believe lies if they were
22 October 2019 · 7 min read
This was a question on Quora to which I replied in August 2017. It got over 237,800 views and 16,000 upvotes, yet on 18. July 2019 I got a message that it violates their “Be nice, be respectful” policy. I appealed and today was told that my appeal is rejected. Please check for yo
22 October 2019 · 6 min read
Web series The Family Man on Amazon Prime is a live example of silently the Bollywood is doing perception management for Pakistan and supporting their narrative. Created by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, this series is centered on Srikant Tiwari, who is a struggling family man but
6 October 2019 · 2 min read
The alleged success of the Gandhian method of Satyagraha and Civil disobedience is not due to the strength of the method but due to the benevolence of the regime against which these methods were employed as it never threatened their existence. Imagine a figure like Gandhi launchi
3 October 2019 · 2 min read
The recent incident of the Constitution Bench of Supreme Court asking if there is any descendant of Bhagwan Rama still living and the response of the Hindu community to this query is a glaring example of our ignorance about our own tradition. The Jaipur Royal family produced cert
16 September 2019 · 2 min read