Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — and are …

Effects of Colonization on Indian Thought

By Michel Danino
Having suffered the burden of two centuries of British occupation, India has, since Independence, tried to come to terms with the impact of that exotic presence perhaps diametrically opposed to her own temperament, …

Dara Shikoh’s Quest for Spiritual Unity

Dara Shikoh, eldest son of the Mughal Emperor of India, Shah Jahan, and heir apparent to his throne, was born near Ajmer in 1615 C.E.. It is said that before Dara’s birth, Shah Jahan had …

Waves 2011 Resolution on Varna, Jati and Kula

The Resolutions below have been adopted by the WAVES Jati / Varna / Kula Conference after thorough deliberations by the participants, consisting of spiritual leaders, scholars and other experts, both at the conference venue and …

Mother India

Our sublimest delusion is that India is backward. This predicates, of course, that we are progressive. If backwardness and progress depend on the rate at which one can gobble up vanities perhaps India does not …

Not many know the Indian past he had discovered!

Editor’s note – This post is about Dharampal, a thinker, historian and political philosopher from India who, unfortunately, has been forgotten in the mainstream discourse. He authored The Beautiful Tree (1983), Indian Science and Technology …

The Consciousness Paradigm : To rise or fall is our choice!

By Vaibhav Joshi
A paradigm shift is usually associated to a dramatic change in the way we view things around us, and how we relate to them. Such a significant change occurs when a socially or …

India in 2nd Century CE

By Ritesh M

This description comes in the writings of Fa – Hsien who was a Buddhist monk, and had travelled out of China to India in the 2nd century to get Buddhist Literature. Here is …

Redefining Progress

Let’s make things people better
By Chaitanya Charan Das

“To hear the India’s space mission – the crowning glory of India’s scientific accomplishments – being called a waste of time is intolerable to me,” Amit poured out, …

A World Split Apart

Editor’s note : Select excerpts of the text of brilliant speech Noble prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn made at Harvard University Graduation Day on June 8, 1978. The Harvard Magazine noted that “Given the suffering he …