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Being a Hindu: The history and politics of how an ancient way of life survived centuries of repression, invasion and persecution

2 Comments / Indian Grand Narrative, Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar

India has seen a number of waves of invasions over the millennia. Be it the Greeks, the Scythians or the Yuezhi, invaders struck the Indian subcontinent and often got assimilated into the civilizations preceding their advent. What lived on and thrived was Dharma, which has withstood one of the most gruesome holocaust in all of history, over the millenia, to remain as one of the oldest extant spiritual and civilisation paradigms today.

Democracy in India—Its Foundation in Cultural Pluralism

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Dr. M Lal Goel, Indian Grand Narrative

Dr. Madan Lal Goel The success of democracy in India is frequently attributed to the British influence. Britain ruled India for some 200 years, roughly 1757 to 1947. The British democratic influence is certainly there but so is the influence of the Indian tradition of debate, discussion and pluralism embedded …

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Know Thy #CulturalTerrorist : Cultural Terrorism exposed

2 Comments / #BreakingIndia, Books, Indian Grand Narrative

Team IK for Dr. B S Harishankar Cultural Terrorism : Conflicts and Debates on Cultural Pasts authored by Dr.B.S.Harishankar . The work is published by Indus Scrolls Press New Delhi (www.indusscrolls.com). The price of the book is Rs.350. 248 pages. The book has been recently released , by RSS Sarsangachalak …

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Publishing for Posterity : The way of the Sanatani

2 Comments / Indian Grand Narrative, Mayura Rao

Mayura Rao Humans are social beings who lived in groups from prehistoric times hence interaction was integral to keep the group intact. As the groups grew bigger into clans, communities, villages, towns, and states – so did the need for establishing continuous communication channels for transmission of accumulated experiences, traditions, …

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Separation of Education and Dharma –> A Degenerate Rashtra

2 Comments / Abhisek Kumar Panda, Indian Grand Narrative

Abhisek Kumar Panda Author’s Note : In my previous article I talked about the foundational principles of the Hindu Rashtra as an alternate holistic model to the western concept of state and society. But the question is, why this model does not manifest in this sacred land of India even. …

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Bharat’s Grand Narrative for Global Leadership .. A Manthan

1 Comment / Indian Grand Narrative, Karthik Satyam, Purvapaksha

Author: – Karthik TS. Let us assume we start making a list of successful companies that do not have a brand identity. Almost everyone will bet that such a list will be filled with white space. Humans have always had the affinity to listen to stories and that’s what brands …

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Hindu Rashtra – Toward a Global World : An alternative to the limiting idea of Nation states

6 Comments / Abhisek Kumar Panda, Indian Grand Narrative

Author: Abhisek Kumar Panda. Editorial Note: Building on vocabulary introduced in the book Being Different , IK Abhisek Panda makes a very compelling case for alternatives to the regressive idea of a nation State. These kinds of ideas rooted in a sense of Sanatana and Dharma, will not provoke any …

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#RamJanmaBhoomi : Rejuvenation of Bharatiya Grand Narrative

4 Comments / Indian Grand Narrative, Krishna Ravishankar

Author: – Krishna Ravishankar. Editorial Note : Young IK Krishna discusses the role of the Ramayana in the conception of the Indian Grand Narrative. As Rajiv Malhotra says , the Ramayana is the world’s oldest and most widely spread Grand Narrative. The reconstruction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple at Ayodhya …

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Education vs Dharma ? #Dharma_Is_Not_Optional

3 Comments / Divya Nagaraj, Indian Grand Narrative, Purvapaksha, Reversing the Gaze, Videos

Author: – Divya Nagaraj. The Goal of Education This can be answered in two ways, through the western (adharmic) lens and the dharmic lens. Let us first examine this question through the western lens. In the Western sense, put in most simplistic terms, the goal of education is to attain …

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Indic Food Labeling – A Manthan

1 Comment / Indian Grand Narrative, Kanchi Gopinath, Purvapaksha, Reversing the Gaze

Author: Prof. K Gopinath. Editorial Note: Prof. Gopinath in an incisive piece (with illuminating Notes), highlights the issues that need to be considered. not just in terms of strategy but also calls out to activists and public intellectuals to be honest and true to India’s civilizational pedigree, when pursuing efforts …

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“No India before 1947” : #BreakingIndia = #BreakingRashtra + #BreakingRajya

10 Comments / #BreakingIndia, Aditya Thorat, Indian Grand Narrative, Videos

Questioning the existence of Bharat before pre-colonial times is an old game played by the Breaking India forces. They claim that India was nothing but a geographical mass and that the British morphed it into a nation state. This claim has been also made by Bollywood actor…

COVID19 – #BreakingIndia fault-line or an Anti-fragile force ?

7 Comments / #BreakingIndia, Indian Grand Narrative, Shivoham

The current Covid-19 Crisis is not a ‘Black Swan’ as explained by author and mathematician Nassim Taleb in this interview [1]. On the other hand, six months since its birth in Communist China, much about this Corona virus remains unknown to the general public.

History needs to be History ! .. We need an Alternative To History

9 Comments / Featured Articles, Indian Grand Narrative, Purvapaksha, Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay, Swadeshi Indology

Author: Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay. History as it is In Indian history curriculum, Emperor Ashoka is an important figure, being the only other emperor in India apart from Akbar to have received the honorific “Great”. The following is an excerpt on Ashoka from a typical NCERT history text book used in Indian schools. …

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Unleashing Bharat’s Innate Entrepreneurial Spirit

1 Comment / Indian Grand Narrative, Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay

Global Models The Mumbai-centric RBI believes in the “global” model of lower interest rates. Lower interest rates they say drives growth. The idea is that when interest rates are low, companies will borrow more at lower rates and expand their businesses. More employment will be generated. At lower rates, people will borrow more to buy electronic gadgets, houses, cars and go on foreign…

China Must Pay… and so must the World

Leave a Comment / Indian Grand Narrative, Reversing the Gaze, Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay

China’s crimes and cover-up China must pay for sure. There is no question about that. They exported a deadly virus from Wuhan. They downplayed the danger. They silenced the whistleblowers. If China had taken action 3-weeks earlier, infected cases could have

Hinduism: The Ultimate Antifragile – 2

1 Comment / Indian Grand Narrative, Shivoham, Siddhanta

(Original version published here in 2012) Read First Part Here. The Bandhu Principle How does Integral Unity make Hinduism antifragile? For that we turn to the Bandhu principle, which is described in ‘Being Different’ as follows: “Bandhu is a concept used to explain

Hinduism: The Ultimate Antifragile – 1

3 Comments / Indian Grand Narrative, Shivoham, Siddhanta

(Original version published here in 2012) Author’s Note: This post is not intended to be viewed as a ‘celebration’ by the Hindu society of ‘succeeding in surviving continually for a very long time’. Barely surviving is not a cause for high-fives. Indeed, as Rajiv Malhotra

Who Speaks for Hinduism? A Critique of the special issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Leave a Comment / IK Masters, Indian Grand Narrative, Rajiv Malhotra, Sanatana

Originally written by Rajiv Malhotra nearly two decades ago, the essay is a showcase of incisive analysis. The arguments made and the questions raised are as relevant now as they were then. Nothing much seems to have changed in the kurukshetra. The recent

Where Are The Pandavas Who Can Provide Hindu Leadership?

5 Comments / Hinduphobia, IK Masters, Indian Grand Narrative, Political Narratives, Rajiv Malhotra

The Hindu re-awakening movement must improve its game in the intellectual Kurukshetra. Unfortunately, we suffer from a deficiency of competent scholars and institutional mechanisms. Hindus are often being represented by substandard voices.