Serious writing on dharmic tradition, ritual and cultural memory.
If any saint in modern times has exerted the greatest influence on the public life of India, particularly the youth, it is Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda, who presented Shankaracharya’s Vedanta philosophy in a modern perspective as Navya Vedanta (neo-Vedanta), was born on 12 January 1863 in Calcutta in a Western
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
In Prayagraj, the Ardhakumbh (half-Kumbh festival) is being organized from the upcoming Makar Sankranti (holy festival marking the sun's transit into Capricorn) to Mahashivratri (the great night of Shiva), which is an extraordinary and important part of Hindu dharma (righteous way of life) and Indian culture. The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, is vigorously engaged in the preparations for the Kumbh (sacred pitcher festival). To bring recognition to the Prayag Kumbh across the entire world...
23 October 2026 · 1 min read
Entry of young girls/women prohibited in Kerala’s Sabarimala temple... entry of girls prohibited in the Shingnapur Shani temple... amidst such reports/breaking news circulating in the media, making certain revelations today has become necessary because of late, running their brothel continuously on money from the Vatican and the Arab world...
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Wherever we look in the world, nature-endowed diversity, distinctiveness, the distinction between adhikara (competence or entitlement) and anadhikara (lack of entitlement), and their harmony are readily apparent. Even across all beasts, birds, trees, stones, metals, and other jada (insentient) and chetana (sentient) entities, a continuum of difference born of inherent specificity is clearly discernible. This diversity of nature, replete with distinctiveness
23 October 2026 · 7 min read
"चतुर: कुंभाश्चतुर्धा ददामि" (“I bestow the four Kumbhas in fourfold measure”) — the supreme and ultimate goal of human life is the attainment of *amritatva* (immortality). Estranged from immortality since time immemorial, man remains in ceaseless pursuit of that very *amritatva*. The Puranic narrative of securing *amrita* (nectar of immortality) through the *devasura sangrama* (war between the devas and asuras) and the *samudra manthan* (churning of the ocean) makes it evident that Bhagavan Himself, through Moha (delusion)...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
When Shri Ram was instructing Bharat in statecraft at Chitrakoot, He asked him whether the purohits (family priests) and brahmins in his kingdom were living in peace and happiness. Filled with curiosity, Bharat asked, “Elder brother! I can understand why you asked about the brahmins, but why did you ask about the purohits?” To this, Shri Ram...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
In Bharatiya culture, many ideal couples exist, but the pair considered the most ideal among them is that of Raghunandan Shri Ram and Janaknandini Sita Ji. This is regarded as the most ideal couple because the degree of excellence found in the loving relationship of husband and wife in this pair...
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Nowadays, many leftists and feminists accuse the Hindu shastra (scripture) Manusmriti of being anti-woman and patriarchal in order to oppose Hindu dharma (righteousness, duties and cosmic order), whereas the truth is quite different. It is astonishing when these very same people portray the Quran as a champion of women. In Manusmriti, there are numerous such statements about women
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Vivekananda Rock Memorial – Kanyakumari, Symbol of a Historic Struggle: Wandering across the entire country, the itinerant sannyasi (renunciant) arrived at India's southernmost tip, where the temple of Bhagavati Kanyakumari has stood since antiquity. The sannyasi fell at the feet of Ma Bhagavati. Out there in the ocean stand two rocks...
23 October 2026 · 8 min read
On 2 November 1976, under the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution, India was declared a secular, that is, panthanirpeksha (sect-neutral) nation. And from that very moment, politics in the name of secularism overtly commenced. Leaders of political parties interpreted the meaning of secularism to suit their own convenience in order to entice the public, but all of that
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
25 June 1983.... A match played between the greatest and most dominating team in cricket history and an emerging team, for lifting the biggest trophy in cricket..... The final of the third Cricket World Cup... West Indies had won both the previous World Cups... Captain Clive Lloyd had in the 1975 final against Austra
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Under immense pressure generated in the aftermath of the so-called Kathua rape incident, the government introduced an ordinance amending the POCSO Act to incorporate even more stringent provisions. Following this amendment, clamour has been rising for the death penalty in all cases of rape, with people questioning why hanging should not be mandated across the board. However, n
23 October 2026 · 7 min read
“Anuurag” is the English translation of Amazon Bestseller “Anurag” and is the story of Anurag Tiwari, late brother of the author Jyoti Tiwari. Anuurag is the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. The book moves you to tears as you read about the journey of Anurag narrated by
23 October 2026 · 2 min read
Why the ban on the Sanskrit prayer in Kendriya Vidyalayas? असतो मा सदगमय ॥ तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ॥ मृत्योर्मामृतम् गमय ॥ Lead us from untruth to truth. Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to immortality. Lead me from falsehood to truth, Lead me from darkness to light, Lead me from death to immortality.
23 October 2026 · 5 min read
To defend Vedic dharma (righteous order), Vedic culture, and the Arya jati (people), to revive it from a moribund state, making it once again vibrant and dynamic, and to raise it to the supreme summit, the Arya Samaj has made hundreds of sacrifices. And the foremost blossom in its front rank is Swami Shraddhanand Saraswati, whose 23 Dec
23 October 2026 · 11 min read
The Saga of the Puranas, Part 2: A massive propaganda campaign has been spread among Hindus that the Puranas (sacred histories) authored by Veda Vyasa are modern texts. It is evident from the very name *Purana* that it pertains to that which is ancient. Erasing a culture's history in order to destroy it has been an age-old tradition; denigrating the Puranas is an extension of that very practice.
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Feminists argue that since women have now become capable of earning money, they should not be considered inferior to men, and this constitutes their definition of Gender Equality. Yet they are either forgetting certain realities or wilfully choosing to remain oblivious to them. First and foremost, merely earning money and, through those earnings, supporting a family...
23 October 2026 · 2 min read
Nowadays, Ravana is being glorified among Hindus with great cunning, and the falsehood is being spread that Ravana never touched a woman, that if he harboured lust, he also possessed restraint, and so forth—so that Ravana may be proven a man of character, and people may be led away from Shri Ram and drawn closer to the rakshasa (demon) Ravana.
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
It was about a month ago. I was returning home from my workplace when I saw a crowd gathered by the roadside and several people running in that direction. Realizing that something had just occurred, I accelerated my motorcycle and reached the crowd. There, I saw that a girl, along with her scooty, in a roadside ditch...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Author: Acharya Vasudev Mishra, Veda-vijna (knower of the Veda) यत्रौषधीः समम्मत राजानः समिताविव । विप्रः स उच्यते भिषग् रक्षोहामीवचातनः ॥ ऋग्वेदः १०-९७-६ ॥ (Where herbs gather together like kings in a battle assembly, that learned man is called a physician, a destroyer of rakshas [demons] and dispeller of disease.) – Rigveda 10.97.6 Just as a king shines in battle amidst his soldiers, similarly that learned man who is a master of the eight branches of surgery (shalya-ashta-tantra) and an expert in pulse diagnosis (nadi-vijnana) and various types of medicines
18 October 2026 · 15 min read
The Public Message of Maharasaleela Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya' Principal Priest: Shriram Janmabhoomi Shilapujan, Ayodhya Shri Vrindavan Dham Acharya Shri Gangadhar Pathak, the chief priest who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the groundbreaking ceremony (shilanyas) for the Shriram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, [author of] *Brahmadijayasamrudhdarpaka*
18 October 2026 · 10 min read
Will just any random Tom, Dick and Harry be made the sarvasarva (supreme authority) of VHP? Or the general secretary of the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust? Know today who Champat Rai ji is... Shri Champat Rai, the secretary of the Janmabhoomi Trust. During the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975, a young professo
18 October 2026 · 4 min read
'Shri Vedavyasa Pujapaddhati' Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya', Principal - Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan, Ayodhya, Shri Vrindavan Dham. Chief Priest Acharya Shri Gangadhar Pathak, who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the shilanyas (laying of the foundation stone) for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, performing the Shri Vedavyasa Pujap
18 October 2026 · 2 min read
Nowadays, some hyper-scholars are propagating the delusion in society that the tale of Shabari’s "tasted ber (jujube fruits)" is not in the Ramayana, and that Shabari was not a low-caste devotee but an upper-varna (class/caste) woman. This is not only contrary to the supreme import of the shastra (sacred text), but also extremely harmful to social samarasya (harmony) and is a manifestation of ego and malice.
18 October 2026 · 13 min read