Culture

Culture May 01, 2018

The Kannaḍa Sāhitya Sammeḻana of Davanagere

In 1922, the Kannaḍa Sāhitya Sammeḻana[1] was held at Davanagere. That year, Mysore’s Vṛddha Pitāmaha[2] Sri. M. Venkatakrishnayya presided over...

D V Gundappa | Trans: Karthik Muralidharan

Culture Apr 23, 2018

Chandamama’s Luminescence

Typically if you ask a middle-aged person—or even someone in their thirties—who is a connoisseur and from a middle-class family, to describe a few sweet memorie...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh | Trans: Arun Kumar Ramachandra

Culture Apr 04, 2018

ಬಾಲಖೇಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮವಿದ್ಯೆ

ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಆಟವೆಂಬುದನ್ನು ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೇ ಮೀಸಲಾಗಿಸುವುದುಂಟು. ದೊಡ್ಡವರು ಆಟವಾಡಬಾರದೆಂದೇನೂ ನಿಯಮವಿಲ್ಲ. ಅಲ್ಲದೆ, ದೊಡ್ಡವರ “ಆಟ”ಗಳೂ ಬಲುಬಗೆಯಾಗಿರುತ್ತವೆಂಬುದು ಬೇರೆಯ ಮಾತು! ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕದು ಇಲ್...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh

Culture Mar 17, 2018

Yugadi: The Pan-Indian Celebration of Vasanta

On the arrival of the spring, trees shed their old leaves and sprout all over and the extreme climate gives way to a pleasant one. Trees grow prosperous with fr...

Arathi V B

Culture Feb 18, 2018

Debunking the Aryan-Dravidian Issue: An Indigenous Approach

[This paper was submitted to the Swadeshi Indology Conference held in Chennai (December 2017)] Dr. B G L Swamy   Bangalore Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swam...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh, Shashi Kiran B N

Culture Feb 15, 2018

Debunking the Aryan-Dravidian Issue: An Indigenous Approach

[This paper was submitted to the Swadeshi Indology Conference held in Chennai (December 2017)] Sediyapu Krishna Bhat Vidvān Sediyapu Krishna Bhat (8.6.1902 – 8....

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh, Shashi Kiran B N

Culture Feb 04, 2018

Destruction of Hindu Temples: Loss of Physical Spaces for Hindus

It was this enduring, prosperous and robust temple ecosystem that the first wave of alien Muslim armies encountered when they knocked on the doors of Bharatavar...

Sandeep Balakrishna

Culture Jan 28, 2018

The Impact of the Destruction of Hindu Temples: A Brief Survey

Introduction The conception, origin, evolution, and development of temples as physical, architectural structures is perhaps as old as the dawn of human civilisa...

Sandeep Balakrishna

Culture Jan 13, 2018

Suggestions for Institutionalising Ayurveda in India and Abroad

The author wrote this open letter as part of a recent assignment. The letter summarises and adds to his earlier essays on related topics. The assignment was to...

G L Krishna

Culture Dec 21, 2017

Sanskrit and Culture

In 1957, the Central Government constituted a commission under the leadership of renowned linguist Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji. Great scholars like Dr. V Raghava...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh | Trans: Showri Karantha

Culture Dec 04, 2017

Tracing the Strength of Memory

Having borne the title of Śatāvadhāni, I’m often referred to as having a ‘computer mind.’ Whether this is done out of affection or ignorance, it causes me a gre...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh

Culture Nov 25, 2017

Sanātana-saṃvidhāna – Constitutions in Ancient India

It was on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1949 that India gave unto herself the Constitution; indeed a historical event for all Indians. We celebrate it as th...

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh | Trans: Kashyap N Naik