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The Real Renaissance: Why India’s Age-Old Practices Have To Be Given Pride Of Place

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The Hindu devotees Kanwariyas carrying Ganga water return to Noida from Haridwar. (Virendra Singh Gosain/Hindustan Times via GettyImages) 

An Indic Renaissance Is Far From Complete 

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Ruins of Nalanda University (Mrityunjay.nalanda/Wikimedia Commons)

Conquest And Memory

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From the subjugation of Makran in 643 to the third battle of Panipat in 1761, why couldn’t we come up with an effective answer to such repeated Islamic invasions? 

And Thus Fell Nalanda

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Ruins of Nalanda University (Mrityunjay.nalanda/Wiki Commons)

Nalanda – In Need Of A Second Renaissance

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Ruins of Nalanda University (Mrityunjay.nalanda/Wiki Commons)

Padmavati: An Indian Story

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Padmavati

Row Over Bhansali’s Padmavati Reconfirms Close Causal Relationship Between Culture And Capital

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A still from the trailer of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film <i>Padmavati</i> (Viacom18 Motion Pictures/YouTube)

Signs Of Hindu Resurgence Are Visible But Renaissance Is Still Far Away

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Hindu priests offer evening prayers on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)

Do Political Ideologies and Institutions Influence Cultural Production?

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Cultural World System

India’s Swaraj Parampara – The Tradition of Self-Illuminating Independence

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India’s 71st Independence day celebrations (Photo: MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Traditions Must Evolve To Stay Relevant

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Interference may be superseded by direct experience, sruti, the advaita nature of our consciousness absorbs all dualities in a grand continuum of cosmic experience across space and time. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Sruti, Smriti, And The Individual

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To construct the entire past as an area of darkness is both counter-intuitive and Counter-factual, not to speak of counterproductive. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

On Facts And Principles: Dr Makarand Paranjape Responds To Dr Chinnaiah Jangam

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Dr Makarand Paranjape and Dr Chinnaiah Jangam

Torn Between Tradition And Modernity

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Indians

The Monk Who Saw Religion Through The Prism Of Science

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Swami Vivekanand

Vedanta & Modern Physics: Why The Marriage Of Spirituality And Science Is Difficult

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Vivekananda And Einstein

The Swami’s Double Helix  

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Swami Vivekananda&nbsp;

Where Is The Brahmin, Seeker Of The Highest Truth, Beacon Of Light And Leadership?

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“Brahmins of Bengal,” from ‘The World: its Cities and Peoples’, by W. W. Birdsall, 1892 (Wikimedia Commons)

The Deadly Endgame

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Swaraj, Murty And Indology

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A 17th-century birch bark manuscript of ancient Panini Sutra, a treatise on grammar, found in Kashmir. (Wikimedia Commons)

Wanted: “Soft” Hindutva

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(PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)

Fifty Shades of Grey – Without the Thrills  

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Prof Makarand Paranjape Responds To Maitreyee Shukla’s Open Letter

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