Hindu power – Part 3
By – Francois Gautier “Hindus are cowards and Muslims bullies,” the Mahatma Gandhi once famously said. And this seems to be fairly true: today at the least sign of trouble, Hindus stay home, shy from confrontation, or outright run away. We indeed witnessed how the 4,00,000 Hindus of Kashmir, who had done no crime, except being Hindus, fled More...
What the Buddhist translation project can teach Rohan Murty and the rest of us
The Buddhists have been diligently at work on a massive translation project that is expected to continue for a few generations. There is a lot to learn from this. Please visit this site for an idea of the well More...
Hindu power Part – 2
Mr Modi, has done an outstanding job in the two and half years since he came to power: he has initiated economic reforms, such as pushing through the much needed GST bill, inaugurated a Clean India movement which More...
Key debates in the battle for Sanskrit
By – Rajiv Malhotra This book argues that Sanskrit and sanskriti are alive, sacred and sources for liberation. However, the future will depend on what the insiders of our tradition do with this. The big breakthrough More...
Aryan Invasion Theory: An Evidence-less Theory that Kidnapped the Hindu Narrative
By – Kavea Panneerselvam The Europeans believed that everyone in the East lived in uncivilized, barbaric societies. When they found evidence of a highly developed civilization in the Indian subcontinent, with More...
Hindu power: Part 1
By- Francois Gautier Once upon a time Hindus had power: emperors like Chandragupta, who was advised by the remarkable Chanakya, or Kautilya, possessed territories so vast, that they extended from Karnataka till More...
Insiders versus Outsiders: Who speaks for our heritage?
My new book, The Battle for Sanskrit, offers a critique of a category of western Indologists whose work is based on the writings of Sheldon Pollock. I respect Pollock as a hard working scholar, but I am troubled More...
Are Hindus Cowards ?
By – Francois Gautier “Muslims are bullies and Hindus cowards”, the Mahatma Gandhi once said. He may be right – at least about Hindus: there has been in the past 1400 years, since the first invasions More...
Why Sheldon Pollock is a very important Indologist to engage
By Rajiv Malhotra Those who are reading or about to read my new book, The Battle for Sanskrit, will be aware that I focus much of my attention on the prominent American Indologist Sheldon Pollock, who is the most More...
Ours is the only philosophy that we dance : In Conversation with Sonal Mansingh
There is nothing equivalent to kavya in the Abrahamic relogions. That is because liturgy is, for the most part, disconnected from the performing arts. There is no equivalent Jewish, christian or Islamic dance, epic More...