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What Every Hindu Should Know about Christianity (Wilmington, Delaware, 2014) is a book by Kalavai Venkat, pen name of a computer scientist living in Silicon Valley but originating in Kanchipuram, India. To Hindus it might be meaningful to know that he is a “Tambram”, a Tamil Brahmin. His mother tongue is Tamil, but he is also [...]

Interstellar” brilliantly melds some of the most fascinating concepts of theoretical physics with Vedic Philosophy. Whether this was intentional or not is uncertain though. I was eager to find out if everything I observed in the film was intentional or just a really uncanny set of coincidences but after hours of playing google detective I [...]

Summary: ‘Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual was someone who had found something more interesting than sex; in Indology, an intellectual need not make that choice at all.’ Wendy Doniger in ‘When the Lingam is Just a Cigar, Psychoanalysis and Hindu Sexual Fantasies”. Wendy Doniger’s book “The Hindus, an Alternative History” (see the cover), [...]

This is an astonishing book, but not for the reasons the author intended. The Origin of the World’s Mythology utilizes completely out of date and highly questionable scholarship to claim a grand scientific discovery which relies on the author’s “theory” of ultimate mythological reconstruction, dating back all the way to reconstructed stories (i.e., made up [...]

Apart from a few fads such as yoga, vegetarianism, meditation and the now ubiquitous curry house the impact of Indian culture on the West remains minimal. With the emphasis in India itself on rote learning the country has excelled in producing high achievers in the spheres of science and technology. However the fanatical drive in [...]

Anyone familiar with Vedic themes and concepts would certainly travel back in time with Joss Whedon’s ‘The Avengers’  (Avengers Assemble in UK ).  The movie is a potent cauldron of opposing elements and forces that yet again brings back to life the epic battle of good and evil. In Vedic metaphysics, the universe is segregated [...]