Through his sisters’ lives, Swami Vivekananda, was sensitized to the experience of Indian women. He witnessed closely their pain and suffering and it evoked in him a deep regard for Indian womanhood.Continue Reading
What was raised on Red Fort on 26 January 2021, was the spectre of an unholy abrahamised edition of the Khalsa, and not the actual Nishan Sahib which became a symbol of fighting oppression, foreign rule and religious fanaticism.Continue Reading
Sagat Singh of 17 Division refused to obey Corps’ orders. He decided his men wouldn’t budge an inch from Nathu La, come what may…Continue Reading
The controversy surrounding the question of the origin of the ‘Rajputs’ is as mired as it is infructuous. Whatever the origin of their clans might may have been: Indian or foreign, Brahmin or Kshatriya, the kings of these dynasties shouldered willingly the Kshatriya’s dharma to protect the body and spirit of their land, people and culture.Continue Reading
An accurate interpretation of the term ‘Hindavi Swarajya’ would be: Hindu Paramountcy… an assertion of the ascendance of Hindus in the lands of their ancestors, primacy of their civilisational ethos, religious values and cultural expressions to eradicate the corrupting and degrading influence and ignominious vassalage to Islamic rule. And there is not a single act in the career of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that deviated from this vision.Continue Reading
“Every precept which was enjoined by the doctors of other religions he [Akbar] treated as manifest and decisive, in contradistinction to this Religion of ours [Islam], all the doctrines of which he set down to be senseless, and of modern origin, and the founders of it as nothing but poor Arabs, a set of scoundrels and highway robbers, and the people of Islam as accursed.”Continue Reading
Millions of unnamed Hindus repaired to Ayōdhyā, day after day, over months and years and centuries, with their steadfast observances, as per the sacred legend recounted in the Purāñas, at the Janmabhūmī site enshrined in their hearts as the birthplace of Śrī Rāma, earmarking it in perpetuity.Continue Reading
Much popular fiction around Rammohun Roy’s personality was invented by those for whom it was useful to portray him as a religious eclectic and a rebel.Continue Reading
Babarao was of the conviction that successfully achieving the political aims of the Indian people needed hard-headed realism, on the lines of the principle of ‘shatham prati shathyam’ (wily in requital; tit for tat).Continue Reading
If assessed in terms of the competing objectives, the Battle of Haldighati can indeed be regarded as a Mewari triumph, because the Rana had successfully defended his territory, and the Mughal invasion had been a miserable failure.Continue Reading
