Vedas

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Instead of Copying Its Words, Let’s Adapt the Charak Shapath’s Ideas to Our Time

Megha and Prasan Shankar 18/03/2022

The context in which the lines appear in the...

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The Age of the Unicorn, Brought to You by IIT Kharagpur

Meera Nanda 03/01/2022

Those seeking 'evidence' that the Indo-Aryans were native sons...

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Why the IIT Kharagpur ‘Vedic Calendar’ Is Worse Than Ordinary Pseudoscience

Rahul Siddharthan 30/12/2021

The calendar seeks to right historical 'wrongs' for an...

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Ministry of Human Resource Development, IIT Kharagpur, Meera Nanda, Ram Setu, Adam's bridge, Archaeological Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, ancient knowledge, Vedas, Puranas,

Dear Minister: For Heaven’s Sake, Stop Peddling Pseudoscience

C.P. Rajendran 29/08/2019

Pokhriyal isn't alone in fabricating bits of our history....

Union Ministry of Culture, Prahlad Singh Patel, Vedic Heritage, Vedas, Rig Veda, particle physics, Hindutva, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vaidic particle physics, quantum chromodynamics, ancient knowledge, Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, Rajnath Singh, S-matrix theory, quantum field theory, Prakriti, ayurveda, astrology, scientism, Audrey Truschke, Sheldon Pollock, Patricia Sauthoff, Nalanda University,

Culture Ministry’s New ‘Vedic Heritage’ Portal Only Debases the Study of Vedas

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/08/2019

Its inability to engage with the great philosophical and...

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Towards a Less Xenophobic Appreciation of India’s ‘Ancient Knowledge’

C.P. Rajendran 03/04/2018

Once we appreciate that India was one among a...