Category vividhaprakAra vishayah
Rama Shines Brightly at Noon
In Yuddha Kanda, when Bharata meets Rama and pleads him to unburden him and be crowned as the King, Valmiki notes the dialogue in several shlokas. One of the shlokas is जगदद्याभिषिक्तन् त्वामनुपश्यतु सर्वतः । प्रतपन्तमिवादित्यं मध्याह्ने दीप्ततेजसं ॥ “World will see you glowing splendidly at noon when you are crowned today”. Rama, being the […]
Self Discrimination is Discipline
COVID19 has changed a lot of things. It is clear that we are finding value in a lot of things which we took for granted in the past. Nature seems to have taken over at quite a sharp pace so much so that even Ganga and Jamuna rivers look clean! However, the early days of […]
Modi government’s journey and how far are we from dharma rajya?
How do we define how Indian society functions? Let us turn to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. From his seminal work “Integral Human -ism”: While other concepts of state are right oriented, the Indian concept of Dharma Rajya is duty-oriented, there is no scope here for rights being trampled upon or for any hankering after unlimited rights. […]
First episode of Cosmos
It is sad that despite Carl Sagan’s interest in Hindu point of view of the cosmos, Neil deGrasse stuck to Western world view of Cosmos as the yard stick in the new series Cosmos: A spacetime Oddessy. Neil deGrasse Tyson said in the first episode – “it was not until 500 years ago that we […]
When people are allowed do business with each other freely….
A beautiful ad from Axis Bank has been playing these days on TV. It looks like the best possible way to depict how it would look when people do business with each other. Watch. When Venkat gets his bonus in Tamil Nadu, his wife Lakshmi asks for a trip to Himachal. They buy new clothes […]
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