Indus Valley : A “secular” civilization, where religious element didn’t dominate
Jawaharlal Nehru | Saturday,October 8,2016One thing that stands out clear and unmistakable is that the civilization revealed at Indus Valley is not incipient, but one already age-old and stereotyped on Indian soil, with many millenniums of human endeavor behind it
It is misleading to refer to Indian culture as Hindu culture
Jawaharlal Nehru | Saturday,October 8,2016The word 'Hindu' does not occur at all in our ancient literature
Gita is not sectarian, It is for everyone
Jawaharlal Nehru | Saturday,October 8,2016The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue
Mohenjo Daro, which still reminds us of persisting traditions and habits
Jawaharlal Nehru | Monday,August 22,2016At this dawn of India's story, she does not appear as a puling infant, but already grown up
First great cultural fusion must have taken place between Aryans and the Dravidians
Jawaharlal Nehru | Monday,August 22,2016Out of the synthesis of Aryans and Dravidians grew the Indian races and the basic Indian culture, which had distinctive elements of both.
Those who call all Indians “Hindus” are not far wrong
Jawaharlal Nehru | Monday,August 22,2016A Muslim or Christian Indian is as much a “Hindi” as a person who follows Hinduism as a religion
Aryan sense of superiority responsible for Caste system
Jawaharlal Nehru | Monday,August 22,2016Caste began with a hard and fast division between Aryans and non-Aryans, the latter again being divided into the Dravidian races and the aboriginal tribes.
Vedas : Unfolding of a wonderful mind with the glow of poetry
Jawaharlal Nehru | Monday,August 22,2016In Rig Veda we can find the first outpourings of the human mind, the glow of poetry, the rapture at nature's loveliness and mystery. And the beginnings of the brave adventures