Abhinav Agarwal

Heretic - Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now by Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( @Ayaan ) Good start, but runs out of steam early on, and gallops mostly...

When trying to opine on an epic like the Mahabharata, perhaps the most appropriate way to keep one’s ego in check to be reminded of a verse...

India: A Sacred Geography, by Diana L Eck Diana L. Eck " is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard Univ...

India, with an estimated population of 1.2 billion, had more than 900 million mobile subscribers in 2014. Of these, about 150 million were ...

Rearming Hinduism: Nature, Hinduphobia and the Return of Indian Intelligence Paperback,  by Vamsee Juluri ( @VamseeJuluri ) Who control...

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future Martin Ford Part 3 of 3  ( part 1 , part 2 ) As 2014 drew to a cl...

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future Martin Ford Part 2 of 3 ( part 1 ) Machines have been able to do m...

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future Martin Ford Part 1 of 3 " I'm smart; you're dumb. I...

Deepavali (also called Diwali in much of North India) came this year on the 11th of November, 2015. The date, as per the Gregorian calenda...

Bhima throws an elephant at Karna (credit: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) That Bhima was a man of action is not in dispute. One cou...

Hinduism and its culture wars Vamsee Juluri's essay in 2012 has been published as an e-book, " Hinduism and its culture wars ...

Playing by the book to win is a myth that has cost us dear. We should know better, but we're probably poor learners! Among several argu...

Sarpa satra of Janamajeya (credit: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Yagyas do not always end happily in the Mahabharata. I wrote abou...

The white man's burden, 1898 Detroit Journal cartoon Remember the “White Man’s Burden” – the phrase that grew out of Rudyard Kiplin...

Nadir Shah at the sack of Delhi (credit: Wikpedia, the free encyclopedia) Of all the depredations that Delhi has suffered over the cen...

The Gita for Children, by Roopa Pai Yes, there is a need for one more book on the Gita. This one fits a particular niche quite well. ...

Kurukshetra (credit: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) The Mahabharata has lived for thousands of years for the reason that it serves a...

Peshwa Baji Rao I riding a horse (source: Wikipedia) Among the notable battles fought in India, the Battle of Palkhed, between Peswha ...

My review of Dr. Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata, Volume 10, was published in Swarajya on March 27, 2015, titled, " 3 Years with Vya...

A chilling side to Yudhishthira's personality came to the fore as the Kurukshetra war was dying down. My piece appeared in Swarajya on...