Abhinav Agarwal

I f history is to be written to make it accessible to the lay reader, the student, and make it interesting, Sanjeev Sanyal is one autho...

T here are travels that begin on a note that tell you to prepare for the worst. Of course, as a rational person you do not believe in omen...

T he second meeting Karna had was with Kunti. Kunti, the mother who had abandoned her first-born son and Karna, the son who could not bring...

Kunti abandoning Karna (image credit: http://www.dollsofindia.com/) I will stay with Karna for this post also (the previous post was a...

T he myth of Dalit-Islam unity has been doing the rounds for a few decades now, despite a copious amount of evidence to the contrary and...

It is not without reason that the character of Karna has attracted so much fascination and attention from readers of the Mahabharata. Peopl...

Sometime between 2013 and 2015 a considerable stretch of NH7 got six-laned - from Hosur to Krishnagiri. This is also one of the busiest str...

image credit: WDnet Agency, pexels.com In 2015 I had written a series of articles on the e-commerce battle between Flipkart and Amazo...

Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy , by Emily Bazelon The Name of ...

Rama and Ayodhya, by Meenakshi Jain Aryan Books International; 2013 edition (ISBN: 8173054517, 978-8173054518) Rama and Ayodhya , by...

As the week drew to a close, a story that broke headlines in the world of Indian e-commerce was the departure of Flipkart’s Chief Produ...

His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud is a member of the Saudi royal family. Per Wikipedia , he is a " nep...

The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World  - this New Yorker piece in the January, 2016 issue of the magazine, by someone named Laris...

200-year old Hindu Temple in Jaipur, 2015 [ image   credit: unknown] Whilst on the one hand the ruination wrought by Hindoo regressive...

The Chakravarti Adarsh Lieberal rules over the circle of a dharma where it is but child’s play for to step in and step out of any of the se...

Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You, by Hindol Sengupta A thought-provoking and breezy account. Hindol hits the right points and n...

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 ...