Research Articles

Western media – why silence over Islamic terrorism?

30 June 2022

Date: June 30, 2022 (Revised on July 5, 2022) The lack of condemnation from the international community and western media concerning the gruesome killing and decapitation of Kanhaiya Lal (a Hindu) in Udaipur, India on June 28, 2022, by two Islamic terrorists is yet another example of bigotry when the victims are Hindus. By distancing …

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Continued Distortions of Hindutva: Clubbing Hindutva with Nazism, Fascism, and Phobia

29 May 2022

Date: 29 May 2022 What is Hindutva? What is Hindu Rashtra? Several recent books, articles, and podcasts qualify as an ill-informed hate speech against Hindutva. Some of these detractors view VD Savarkar’s “Essentials of Hindutva”, published in 1923, as the foundation of Hindutva; some others view the texts of MS Golwalkar and others as the …

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Abhinav Gupta (~950 to ~1015 AD) – a Scholar from Kashmir

28 May 2022

Date: 6 May 2022 The runaway success of “The Kashmir Files”, a movie based on real-life incidents concerning the plights of Kashmiri pandit community, has re-ignited debates and discussions centred on Kashmir in India and elsewhere. Maharajah Sir Hari Singh, the then ruler of Kashmir, signed the Instrument of Accession on 26th October 1947. As …

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The Lost Upanishad – Patanjali’s Book on Yoga

28 May 2022

Date: 28 Feb 2022 Patanjali is one of the central figures in all yoga traditions. Well-documented evidence on his life does notexist but he possibly lived in the 2nd century BC. His “Yoga Sutra” has been a near inviolable foundationof yoga for several centuries. Yoga enthusiasts worldwide, especially the ones who are familiar with theasana …

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