Dalit wedding violence in Uttar Pradesh highlights caste tensions during celebrations, leading to attacks and police ...

Rhythm Wagholikar reminds us that the Rath Yatra tradition is not just an act of faith. It is a living archive of culture, ...

The 19th World Sanskrit Conference began on Thursday at Nepal Academy Hall in Kamaladi, Kathmandu. Organised by the Nepal Sanskrit University, the five-day event has brought together scholars, ...

Filip Vezdin, a Croatian missionary and scholar, pioneered Sanskrit studies in Europe. His printed grammar, cultural analyses ...

That the Indian politics is caste-based goes without saying. The projected caste census is the culmination of such politics. With each passing day, the casteist discourse will become shriller, for ...

Samskrita Bharati has taught spoken Sanskrit to lakhs of people through workshops in India and abroad, introducing it as an everyday language. Its innovative approach avoids rote grammar, using ...

On his latest work, India; A Linguistic Civilization that explores how the diversity that defines the Indian mind space emerges out of India’s multilingualism ...

Meanwhile, the caste grew in strength, with 25 lakh members by the early nineteenth century, according to the 1921 census. “Although by 1921 the name Mahishya was widely recognised, there was a great ...

The sidewalk in front of the Kailash Hotel at 179 Julian Ave., named for the “abode of the gods” in Sanskrit, is a longtime fixture of 16th and Mission streets, one of several hot spots in San ...

Costumes by Keerthi Subramanyam contribute to the play’s critique of progress. Brett Boardman/Belvoir. The Wrong Gods grapples with the more-than-human worlds at stake amid multiple crises.

RSSFACTS: Swami Vigyananand’s ‘The Hindu Manifesto’ outlines eight civilisational pillars for a Hindu renaissance, challenges colonial and Western misconceptions about caste, and promotes a ...