Mahabharata
Excerpts from DVG's writings on how the Nehruvian policy after Independence systematically destroyed India's cultural empire in southeast Asia leading to a loss of cultural self-confidence.
Ramayana
A deeply moving and enriching incident in the student days of the towering scholar and musician, Sri Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sarma
Ramayana
The first part of a series documenting the brief history of the calculated destruction of the two-millenia-old tradition of Indian literary and aesthetic tradition and discipline
Ramayana
The first part of a series exploring the systematic destruction of the timeless tradition of Sanatana storytelling and the civilisational costs it entails.
Sanatana Polity
A story from the Mahabharata and its parallel to the contemporary politics of the Congress Party
Ramajanmabhoomi Movement
A critique of the left-liberal hatred against the rerun of the Ramayana and Mahabharata TV series on Doordarshan
Mahabharata
Quoting his own words from his extraordinary profile of the modern ṛṣi D V Gundappa (DVG), perhaps the best way to ensconce Ācārya S R Ramaswamy’s legacy in the severely constricting medium of text is to begin by expressing one’s difficulty in the endeavour. Where does one even
Mahabharata
By the time Girish Karnad wrote Agni Mattu Male (The Fire and The Rain) in the early 1990s, he had already pocketed the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Padmashri, the Padmabhushan, and the Karnataka Sahitya Parishad Award…all of which he had amassed on the wreckage of Indian culture and
Mahabharata
Yayati is Girish Karnad’s first play, written in Kannada when he was twenty-three years old. It is also his seminal work of cultural vandalism, his first attempt at massacring everything that the Indian tradition and culture holds sacred, sublime, elevating, and valuable. Published in 1961, the instant success of
Mahabharata
A layman's introduction to the Hindu ethics of war