Bhagavad Gita

The most eagerly awaited Hollywood release of the year is Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist who assisted in the creation of the first nuclear bombs, is the subject of the movie. Because of his involvement in the Manhattan Project, the physicist is frequently referred to as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” [...]

With the resignation of Boris Johnson the race has been on to find a new prime minister. This is July 2022 and it looks as if the front runner is Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor. Indeed the race for leading the Conservative Party, and indeed the country was noticeable by the presence of so many [...]

Recently WWE champion Veer Mahan ferociously knocked wrestler Dominik Mysterio unashamedly out of the wrestling ring upsetting some Hindus who are saying this act of violence would have Gandhi’s ashes rolling in his Raj Ghat tomb in tears but they further said tearfully, that instead, Veer Mahan should have at least done a non-violent Satyagraha [...]

In his interview with the media, Will Smith revealed a shocking fact that he is immensely influenced by Bhagavad Gita and read 90% of it. He also said that he has a high influence of Arjuna on him. [...]

In recent times such a criticism has often been made of the Bhagavad Gita, that it contains material that exhorts or exalts war, and worse, that it is a type of ‘war manual’ in the mode of the Chinese ‘Art of War’. But such a view can come only by a cursory reading, without reference to [...]

Reams have been written on this enigmatic work, one of Hinduism’s core sacred texts and perhaps the greatest contribution to world literature on human spirituality. Often though the Gita ( more properly, the Bhagavad Gita, to distinguish it from other similarly named works such as the Vyadha Gita, Rama Gita, Devi Gita, Ganesha Gita etc, [...]

President Obama has narrowed his list of potential Supreme Court nominees to about six names, our colleagues on The Post politics staff report. One jurist in the running, whose name has been floated for the Supreme Court starting almost immediately after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, would make history: Sri Srinivasan would be the first Hindu [...]

It was a red-letter day for Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan, 46, as he was formally sworn in as judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.His moment of glory was witnessed by his family and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s family. He was sworn-in and with his hand placed on the [...]

To my chagrin and dismay, self-appointed defenders of oppressed cultures who cast contemporary western yoga as the second coming of the East India Company have attached themselves to the fabric of yoga discourse with the stubborn persistence of a burr on a sock. Consequently, perfectly serviceable yoga programs are now at risk of being run [...]

The concept of monotheism is taken to mean belief in just one god, deity, the creator. This is contrasted with polytheism which belief in many gods, as well as atheism which is denial of such a supernatural being. But is it just so simple? Has this monotheist narrative now spilled over into what we would [...]