Classical Hindu laws and modern India
Wednesday,October 12, 2016
What is Sanatana Dharma
Marut Mitra| Monday, October 10, 2016We all keep hearing and misinterpreting about Sanatana Dharma, but do we also know the real meaning of it? This may ...
Bharat as Devbhumi
Marut Mitra| Monday, October 10, 2016These ten attributes can be described as Devbhumi
Manu, Sukra and Chanakya : A sneak into Hindu jury system
Marut Mitra| Wednesday, September 21, 2016Hindu law-givers did not draw any formal distinction between civil and criminal law, and the same Court was to ...
Learn democracy from honeybees
Marut Mitra| Monday, September 19, 2016As a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands ...
House is the center of the house-holders’ universe
Marut Mitra| Wednesday, July 27, 2016Highly developed saints have lived a simpler life and dispensed with many things which are counted among necessaries by ...
“Dharma” is our duty to others, “Kama” is our duty to ourselves
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016The Dharma Shastras accepted Kama’s positive qualities but decreed that it had to be confined to marriage and ...
The king should never forget what “Arthshastra” tells of “Rajdharma”
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016India experienced a ‘golden decade’ of growth from 2002 to 2012 when GDP growth averaged over eight percent a year.
How India remained the eternal “Soft” power : from exporting goods to ideas
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016India’s power has always been ‘soft’, not expressed through military conquest, but in the export of goods and ideas.
Dharma and Morality of the Market
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016Dharma places restraints on buyers and sellers. Because you are a person of dharma, I readily accept a check from you.
What Dharma has to do with the Market? Well, everything!
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016The idea that an ancient Indian concept might offer insight into the nature of markets is, on the face of it, bizarre.
What is “liberty” for America and “equality” for France, It's “Dharma” for India
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016Dharma’s world of moral haziness and uncertainty is far closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the ...
Discovery may actually be Re-discovery
Devdutt Pattanaik| Tuesday, July 19, 2016When Europeans, or Americans, insist that they discovered science, it does irk many Indians and rightly so. But the ...
Can Prahlad’s teaching save earth from science driven environmental disaster?
Yajvan| Tuesday, July 19, 2016The life and teachings of Prahlad as narrated in Srimad Bhagvatam is one of the most sublime part of Sanatana dharma.
You become what you ‘Know’
Yajvan| Tuesday, July 19, 2016If anyone knows that Brahman does exist, then they consider him as existing by virtue of that (knowledge).
How Rishis proved to be wise consultants
Devdutt Pattanaik| Tuesday, July 19, 2016The idea of consultants being equated with rishis may be to the liking of many people.
What made Arjuna Insecure
Devdutt Pattanaik| Tuesday, July 19, 2016Even after hearing the Gita, Arjuna is unable to kill Bhisma, Jayadhrata, and Karna until Krishna intervenes with more ...