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
August seems like an unlikely time to be talking about Christmas, but it’ll be here before you know it so we might as well start the debate early this year. December is usually the time of year when Christians all over the world start going back to church in droves, preparing for
14 August 2017 · 4 min read
Ho Chi Minh: Martin C. Windrow (born 1944) is a British historian, editor, and author of several hundred books, articles, and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion. His most
9 August 2017 · 3 min read
Rebuttal to those Neo-Buddhists anti-Hindu tree huggers who say That the Buddha was anti-varna (caste) and Anti-Vedism-Anti Ritual “The Buddha said, ‘What the noble ones say is the truth, what the others say is not true. And why is this? The noble ones understand things as they a
9 August 2017 · 3 min read
About Pakistan, Savarkar had said, "Till a state based on an intolerant religious foundation was India's neighbor she would never be able to live in peace". The repeated aggressions of Pakistan on India from 1947-48 to Kargil, the latest being the 2008 Mumbai attack and the merci
4 August 2017 · 2 min read
Some wonderful things are in development because of advances made in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. At the same time, there is perhaps an uncomfortable fear that machines may rise up and turn against humans. Usually the scenario is brought up in a joki
30 July 2017 · 2 min read
According to the 1919 census of land in the state of California, Indians owned 88,000 acres of land in California. 52% of this land was in the Sacramento Valley. In the Imperial Valley, they owned 32,000 acres. However, most of these Indians were destined to lose their land under
27 July 2017 · 2 min read
Veer Savarkar said, No movement is condemnable simply because it is sectional. So long as it tries to defend the just and fundamental rights of a particular nation or people or community against the unjust and overbearing aggression of other human aggregates and does not infringe
24 July 2017 · 4 min read
Hinduism in Fiji has a following primarily among the Indo-Fijians, who are descendants of workers brought to Fiji by the British, for colonial sugarcane plantations. Fiji identifies people as Indo-Fijians if they can trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. Originally, th
24 July 2017 · 3 min read
It is regrettable, unfortunate, and unfair that those born in Brahmin families are subjected to vilification, harassment, and persecution, but that is the nature of Kali-yuga where religion is considered as irreligion, and irreligion is considered as a religion. Brahmins came int
24 July 2017 · 5 min read
Many Hindus, irrespective of their political inclination hate Brahmins. And this hatred will lead them where all the non-Hindu pagans have already arrived. Explaining the reason why all the non-Hindu pagans civilization could not withstand the assault of Christianity and Islam, S
18 July 2017 · 2 min read
Were all Shudra untouchables? Let alone scriptures, analyze the social system only. The major jatis (it was like guild before caste system forcefully imposed by the British) of Shudras in northern India are Chamar, Kumhar, Teli, Kahar, Nai, Khatik, Luhar, Badhayi, Thathera, Dhobi
18 July 2017 · 3 min read
Though Veer Savarkar was an outstanding freedom fighter, he was an anathema to the Establishment of Free India. He did not hold any office in free India. Leave alone a Padma honor, he was not even appointed a special executive magistrate. Veer Savarkar was never a captain of any
16 July 2017 · 2 min read
Had it been in the history of any other country, it would have been a part of their folklore, a chapter in their school textbooks, a favorite story for their cinema. But it happened in India, where, either there is such an abundance of heroes and their heroic deeds that people ar
16 July 2017 · 3 min read
The GST Council headed by the Finance Minister has approved a four slab tax rate of 5%, 12%,18%, and 28% respectively according to the types of goods and services and set up the final platform for the GST implementation. Restaurants had the compulsion to go for VAT registration o
16 July 2017 · 2 min read
The Dawn of 26th May 2014 was different. Indian politics was going to change forever. Mr. Narendra Modi, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate was going to sworn in as Prime Minister of India. He took charge as PM and everyone hoped for growth in the economy. The first thing he did w
14 July 2017 · 4 min read
When you're globalizing a brand, it's dependably a smart thought to check whether your name, logo, or slogan implies something else in the areas where you're extending. Here are the 20 most exceedingly terrible cases that disregarded this vital showcasing step: Braniff Internatio
14 July 2017 · 3 min read
In the Arthashastra by Chanakya, The general principles of taxation and the rates of taxation are given in Part 2 Chapter 22 and additional principles for the `replenishment of treasury' (in times of emergency, war, etc., which may have caused an excessive outflow from the treasu
3 July 2017 · 1 min read