Dharma & CultureWhat does the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) do and believe? When I was young, a person gave a speech on smoking at school. That speech was so powerful that for many years afterwards I used to think that smoking is the root of all the world's problems. I believed that the day smoking ends, the world w
23 October 2026 · 7 min read
Dharma & CultureChurch-controlled media has played a major role in preventing the true character and nature of India from reaching the Christian populace or the Western world. Having achieved complete success through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this apparatus had become exceedingly brazen and a "character maker". The Western propaganda apparatus possessed church-driven vas...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Politics & HistoryNowadays news reports frequently appear regarding atrocities against Hindus and the exodus of Hindus in the Muslim-majority regions of Mewat. How did this region, extending across Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, which was once 100% Hindu, reach a state where the population of Hindus is so sparse and their strength so diminished?
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Dharma & CultureWhat I am about to write today may cause distress to some. Yet, I write this after deep deliberation: the construction of the Shri Ram temple through a court verdict or with the consent of Muslims will prove suicidal for Hindutva. A Hindu society already slumbering in the stupor of secularism, if the temple is built with the consent of Muslims...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraBelgian scholar Koenraad Elst wrote a book in 1992 titled *Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam*. Its expanded edition appeared in 2014 and was republished in 2016. This book is primarily Sita Ram Goel's book *Hindu Temples: What Happened To Them* in
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Dharma & CultureFor the common people and sadhakas (spiritual practitioners), the injunction of the shastra (scripture) is to keep their sadhana (spiritual practice), bhajan (devotional worship), and archana (ritual worship) confidential. However, when the wealthy, the affluent, and the rajanyavarga (royalty) discharge their dharmic (righteous) duties, this extremely strict rule of "secrecy" has been dispensed with by the shastrakaras (scriptural authorities) and the leaders of society. And to p
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraChennai, February 5: A video clip of DMK leader Stalin has surfaced on social media in which he is criticising the Vedic rituals of marriage. In this video, Stalin has insulted Hindu customs and, in particular, the Brahmins chanting the Vedas. Over the past week on social media
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Dharma & CultureBharat belongs only to Hindus, is only for Hindus, and is only by Hindus—this is our unshakeable conviction. And this is also the concept of our Hindu Rashtra (Hindu nation). When we express this thought, even many Hindus, overcome by a timidity ingrained over centuries, end up calling this resolve laughable. They go on to say
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Dharma & CultureIn 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
Politics & HistoryThe Ardh Kumbh is being organized in Prayagraj from the upcoming Makar Sankranti to Mahashivratri, standing as a wondrous and vital facet of Hindu dharma and Indian culture. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is vigorously immersed in the preparations for the Kumbh. To accord Prayagraj Kumbh recognition across the entire world...
23 October 2026 · 5 min read
Sanskrit & Shastraमाता गुरूतरो भूमेः (The mother is weightier than the earth)—in the Mahabharata, when the Yaksha asks Dharmaraja Yudhishthira, ‘Who is heavier than the earth?’, Yudhishthira replies, ‘माता गुरूतरा भूमेः’ (The mother is weightier than the earth). Yudhishthira’s affirmation of this exalted preeminence of the mother is by no means casual; if you study the Vedas (revelatory canonical scriptures), the Veda, extolling the glory of the mother, proclaims that the mother...
23 October 2026 · 5 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraIn the fourth chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad lies the narrative of Jabala, Satyakama, and Maharshi (great sage) Gautama, son of Haridrumat. Jabala represents that Bharat where woman in every form is Narayani (the Goddess); Satyakama stands as that sentinel of truth who proclaims that the steadfast person who never deviates from the path of truth is alone a Brahmana.
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Dharma & CultureNowadays, 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
Dharma & CultureOn 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
Dharma & CultureWhy 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
Dharma & CultureTo 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
Dharma & CultureThe 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
Sanskrit & ShastraAbout six months ago, I read an article on Gita Press published by the BBC. The piece concocted the specious argument that the printing press known as Gita Press was working on a mission to forge a Hindu India. Subsequently, I read yet another article titled "Gita Press's Talibani Thinking on Women." Having read both articles, my mind...
23 October 2026 · 7 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraIt is asserted by some that no matter how wicked a woman may be, she must be respected, even if she is a prostitute. To substantiate this, they even advance arguments drawn from Hindu texts. One argument is that Hanuman Ji honoured Surasa and Trijata, who were rakshasis (demonesses), by addressing them as 'Mother'; then Bollywood act...
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Politics & HistoryHistory textbooks must certainly have told you that after Humayun, Sher Shah Suri seized the throne of Delhi; in these very books you would also have read that Humayun handed over the realm for a single day to a boatman or a bhisti (water-bearer) who issued leather coins; in those same books, you might perhaps also have read...
23 October 2026 · 10 min read
Politics & HistoryThe Indian freedom movement is an immortal saga of the struggles, sacrificial deeds, and courageous activities of numerous revolutionaries, yet modern historians have shown extreme niggardliness in mentioning these great revolutionaries who laid down everything they had for the country's freedom. We are taught
23 October 2026 · 29 min read
Politics & HistoryIt was 6 February 1932 when hundreds seated in the Convocation Hall of Calcutta University were left stunned by a volley of bullets fired in rapid succession by a young woman, whose target was none other than the then Governor of Bengal, Stanley Jackson. Although Jackson survived, the courage of this young girl [...] the entire B—
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraLala’s chhichhi (infantile mess)! Typically, when you are having a meal of kadhi-chawal, your siblings or friends must have surely spoiled your appetite in jest by likening its appearance to something all too similar... and yet here in Braj, the transcendental love of the Brajwasis (residents of Braj) for Kanha is such that here, on the second day of Janmashtami
23 October 2026 · 1 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraThe Purusha Sukta (hymn to the Cosmic Being) of the Veda is that Manasarovar of Sanatana Sanskriti (eternal culture) from plunging into which our ancestors extracted the finest of gems and jewels. The Vedas manifested upon the earth solely to secure the welfare of all humanity. If Bharat is viewed after excising these very foundational texts of dharma (cosmic and moral order)—the Vedas, Upanishads, Smritis (remembered canon), and Puranas (ancient scriptures)—th
23 October 2026 · 6 min read