In India, this is called as Karna(ear) Vedha(piercing) ((Sanskrit: कर्णवेध) and is one of the Shodasha Samskaras (16 ceremonies) performed on a human between birth and death. Ear...
~ By Stephen Knapp The typical Indian mentality and the path of Hinduism, or the Vedic path of spiritual progress, is one of great individuality and...
“According to the Mahabhasya of Patanjali, there were 21 Shakhas of Rigveda, 9 of Atharvaveda, 101 of Yajurveda (86 of Krishna Yajurveda and 15 of Shukla...
There is an active movement going on today in which orthodox members of the Sikh community are working to protect the sanatana heritage from which their Sikh religion...
~ Presentation to Indian National Science Academy in November 1976 by Dr. S. L. Dhani, Retd., Ex-Commissioner and Secretary to Haryana Government Manvantara Theory of Evolution...
Extracted with permission from the publisher, Roli Books The inside story of how Sanjay Gandhi and Zail Singh created ‘Sant’ Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and unleashed...
-By Ram Ohri – Former IPS officer and writes regularly on security issues, demographics, and occasionally, on policy. For centuries the Sufi creed and Sufi music have been tom-tommed as...
Vibhuti (Sanskrit : vibhūti ; Tamil : Thiruneeru ) is a word that has several meanings in Hinduism. Generally, it is used to denote the sacred...
BY STEPHEN KNAPP Starting from India and heading to the west, this area had strong contacts with ancient India from many years ago, and is said to...
~ By Udaylal Pai Those who historically murdered, looted, raped and pillaged and destroyed are today forgiven in modern India in the name of forgetting the...