| Editorial - Vijayadashmi 5108 |
Editorial - Vijayadashmi 5108 The past year has been a watershed in Islamic terrorism in India. Especially after the Varanasi blasts and Mumbai blasts, the threat of homegrown ‘Indian' Islamic Terrorists has ... Read More >> |
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| Global Jihad and its Implications for the Hindu Identity of India |
Global Jihad and its Implications for the Hindu Identity of India After Al Qaeda's attack on WTC and Pentagon on Sept 11 2001, the world has been in incessant turmoil. Before deliberating on the objectives of global jihad, its massive reach and far reaching implications for India, it is necessary to understand and analyze the global ... Read More >> |
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| Islam's Weakness |
Islam’s Weakness A multi-front jihad has been underway to Islamize India and bring it under Islam's control. This Islamization drive appears to be supported by a large percentage of Indian Muslim population and by neighboring Muslim nations. Islamists have skillfully taken advantage of weaknesses among majority Hindus thus far. In fact, Read More >> |
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| The Religion of the Nazis |
The Religion of the Nazis
Contemporary historians, along with novelists and filmmakers, just can't get enough of Nazi Germany. Scholars of religion too are now frequently zooming in on this subject, though often with more polemical than scholarly purposes. The stakes are high, so competing ideologies invest heavily in showing ... Read More >> |
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| Dharma and Vrata |
Dharma and Vrata
Both dharma and vrata are inviolate, notes Rigveda. Dharma is sacred because it is the divine ordering principle. Dharma is the principle which recognizes the way things are or the nature of things or phenomena.
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| Hindu Hospitality, Food services and Bhagavad Gita |
Hindu Hospitality, Food services and Bhagavad-Gita The religious, social, political and economic ideologies provided in Bhagavad-Gita are unique to Hindu traditions. To transform these ideologies in to a socio-economic reality and a factor of significance for the political activism at the global level, proactive Dharmic enterprise is needed. The goal is crea... Read More >> |
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| Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso is Authentic History |
Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso is Authentic History Kaviraj Chand Bardai was a court poet of Maharana Prithviraj and his composition "Prithviraj Raso" is an historical epic and an authentic source of India's medieval history. But the British termed it as spurious and fake. Dr. Buhler was instrum... Read More >> |
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| Genetics on Migrations in History |
Genetics on Migrations in History When we examine the accounts of ancient India as given in history books still in use against the background of empirical data and the primary (literary) sources, we find fundamental mismatches between data and historical theories. These misma... Read More >> |
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| Limitations of Indo-European Linguistics |
Limitations of Indo-European Linguistics
Indo-European linguists (IEL) attempt to study the history of languages by reconstructing hypothetical words from cognates attested in real languages. For example, a hypothetical proto word *snusos meaning daughter-in-law has been reconstructed based on the following cognates attested in real languages (McWhorter 2001): Sanskrit: sn... Read More >> |
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| Aryans: A People or an Obsession? |
Aryans: A People or an Obsession?
No single aspect of ancient Indian history and historiography has so dominated discourse as the so-called ‘Aryan problem.' There is the Aryan invasion (or migration), which is supposed to have brought the Vedic civilization and the ‘Aryan' language (Sanskrit) the Aryan race and even an ... Read More >> |
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| Book Review - Islam: Maker of Muslim Mind |
Book Review - Islam: Maker of Muslim Mind There are many books on Islam which highly and in strong words criticize it, but rarely a book which entirely explores and exposes it's horrible nature without the need of expressing in words of criticism. Such a rare book is Islam – Maker of Muslim Mind written by Prof. Sheshrao Moray (In... Read More >> |
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| It Is Not Really About “Vande Mataram” or “Sarasvati Vandana” |
It Is Not Really About “Vande Mataram” or “Sarasvati Vandana”
The controversy over the UPA governments order on recitation of India's national song Vande Mataram (only first two stanzas) in educational institutes to mark its centenary celebrations last month, once again brought the issue of nationalism, secularism/communalism, minority appease... Read More >> |
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