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From Macaulay to Sunak: How the British attitudes have changed towards Indians
The year was 1834. The East India Company was working to change the education system of India, trying to make it ‘modern’. In that year Thomas Babington Macaulay became the president of the Committee of Public Instruction. Declaring that a ‘single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India…
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A Short Essay on The Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita gained widespread popularity when the British East India Company first translated it into English around 200 years back. Let’s look at what it’s all about.
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Indian Philosophy on the Concept of Heaven and Hell
Traditionally speaking, especially through the lens of Christianity and Islam, it is believed that you are born once and you die once, and when you die, you either go to heaven or hell, depending on how you lived your life. This, however, is not the case when we come to the Indian religions. Since rebirth…
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The Story of Mahabharata – Part Two
In the first part of The Story of Mahabharata we learnt about the two brothers — Dhritarashtra and Pandu. Since Dhritarashtra was the elder brother, he was supposed to get the throne of Hastinapur, but because he was blind, Pandu was chosen as the rightful heir. The marriage life of the two brothers was no…
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The Story of Mahabharata – Part One
In this series, I am going to narrate the story of Mahabharata. The epic poem consists of over a hundred thousand couplets in Sanskrit, therefore, it is likely that a number of details will be missing from this account. Nevertheless, here is an attempt to give you a flavour of this thousands of years old…
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What is Mahabharata? – The Underlying Philosophy of the Great Indian Epic
There are many ways to answer the question — what is Mahabharata? This is often the case with ancient epics, as there are several ways to interpret them. Mahabharata, being the longest of them all (it is ten times Iliad and Odyssey put together), tells the tale of a political struggle between two groups of…
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What is Mahabharata? The Underlying Philosophy of the Great Indian Epic
There are many ways to answer the question — what is Mahabharata? This is often the case with ancient epics, as there are several ways to interpret them. Mahabharata, being the longest of them all (it is ten times Iliad and Odyssey put together), tells the tale of a political struggle between two groups of…
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The Underrated Poetry of Tolkien
We remember JRR Tolkien for his Magnum opus The Lord of the Rings. We remember him through hobbits, elfs, dwarfs, orcs, trolls, wizards and dragons and… Gollum. But seldom do we talk about his poems and songs. The lyricism in his writings is quite extraordinary and must be appreciated. Which is why I have picked…
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