Musings on Leadership, Spirituality, and Indian Culture

People are of two types. Swami Vivekananda said: "This world may be said to be divided between persons of demoniacal nature who think t...

 To understand Hinduism, one needs to distinguish between three different concepts: Worldview, philosophy, and religion.  1. Worldview (or W...

Brāhmaṇatva (Brahminhood, the quality or state of being a brāhmaṇa) is the goal of human evolution. Swami Ranganathananda wrote: "Evolu...

 Intolerance continuum can be seen as comprising four discrete levels, and can be measured on a 4-point scale: 0 = Acceptance 1 = Tolerance ...

Weakness is the root cause of all evils in life. People lie, cheat, harm others, become unethical, fail to honor their word, etc., because t...

Writing ancient history is like solving a jigsaw puzzle with many missing pieces. The most crucial piece in ancient Indian history is the Sa...

Hinduism is not a religion. It is a Weltanschauung or a worldview. One of the most crucial components of this Weltanschauung is the accept...

Human beings do not simply exist; they ever strive to become better. To be better tomorrow than what one is today is built into the DNA of h...

What looks reasonable or ridiculous depends on the context, on how it is framed in terms of what has preceded it and the language that is us...

Why Western Scholars Don't Understand India? Because they are like one studying fish as an animal on land. Can you understand fish if y...