Fasting in the sense of not eating for a specific time upavasa or abstaining from specific substances during certain periods is a wellestablished part of all Hindu spiritual practices In the early tim ...

Kaviyoor Mahadevar Temple has a unique style of architecture and is one of the oldest temples in Kerala It is believed to have been constructed in the early years of the 10th century According to the ...

Index•Synopsis•Ancient Indian Contractual Ethics in the Vedic and Dharmashastra Period•Legal Foundations of Contracts in the Classical Smriti Texts•Kautilya’s Arthashastra and the Secular Regulation o ...

A new framework proposes India’s civilisational resurgence through cul urally rooted governance and ethics In a world increasingly defined by materialism, cultural dislocation, and fractured ...

An Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author ...

Most children in India are taught about the four-fold caste system that emerges in the Vedas. However, in real life, these four categories are not distributed equally across India. In North, South, ...

This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It ...

Hinduism, originating from ancient Vedic culture around 3000 BCE, is one of the world's oldest religions and ranks as the ...

The decision by the Uttar Pradesh government to introduce Ramayana and Vedic workshops in government schools has sparked ...

Stats uses some external APIs, such as: https://api.mac-stats.com – For update checks and retrieving the public IP address; https://api.github.com – Fallback for update checks; Both of these APIs are ...

Right of Privacy of Adolescents (2025 INSC 778) has reopened discussion on the age of consent, forcing us to remind ourselves of the initial goals and moral basis of legislation aimed at safeguarding ...

The etymological roots of the term ‘pariah’ lie in the name of a caste group called ‘Pariayar’, which originated in Tamil Nadu and can be found concentrated today across the Tamil region, Sri Lanka, ...