I grew up in a supposedly “caste-less” world. I grew up not knowing my caste. My surname was just a cool name I had, one that linked me to my father’s family, and made it apparent that I come from a ...

IT is for the mutual benefit of Eastern and Western philosophers that such books as the present are published. A clarification of Indian thought is just as important to Indians themselves as to the ...

I KNEW I WAS a combination of pitta/kapha, two of the three doshas — body and energy types — in the Ayurvedic system of nutrition and wellness. I think I took an online test. But I never knew what the ...

India is often praised for its spirituality, poetry, and devotion. What is less known, and usually deliberately forgotten, is that it also built one of the world’s strongest cultures of reasoning.

The five schools of philosophy that preceded Shankara’s systemic exposition of Vedantic metaphysics were the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, and Purva Mimamsha. All these were essentially guided by ...

A Journey Inspired by the Bhagavad Gita The promotion of Sanatan Dharma has been ongoing in India for a long time, and now it ...

Let me first present an intriguing difficulty for all who wish to study the influences of Indian ideas, values, and beliefs on Western literature. Consider that some key words on both sides of the ...

WE have undoubtedly a vast store of wisdom in the systems of Indian philosophy, and many Western philosophers in the modern period, from Schopenhauer to the Rhys Davids, have drawn inspiration from it ...