D. F. KARAKA D. F. KARAKA is editor of The Current —a highly polemical magazine (described as independent, non-party and anti-“communal”) which he started on September 28th 1949, after resigning from the Editorship of March . The latter had...
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The Ashrams of the Vedic Rishis functioned as the main seats of learning during the Vedic period. Each Ashram was a little university under the control of the presiding rishi, a holy man with a dedicated life. Education is...
The object of the Hindu University is to create a synthesis of the East and the West; to assimilate the scientific knowledge and methods of Europe with the ancient wisdom and culture of the Hindus; to create, in fact,...
Basically monks have two tasks: learning and teaching. Learning about the teaching, and then spread the teaching. To be a good monk you need to know all of the monk’s precepts.
Towards the end of 17th century, the Church of England got its own character- A discourse
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John and Charles Wesley were both priests in the Church of England, and while they were at Oxford, they had decided to become more methodical in their devotional life, in how they were using scripture every day, and how...
Islam is not a culture it’s a prism through which we look at our culture, our history, our moral values, and particularly in Britain today we will find that the Muslim community is so diverse in terms of the...
You can be a Jew who doesn’t believe in God, because your mother, or in liberal and some reform communities your father is Jewish, and you’re raised as Jewish. You can be a Jew who has converted to be...
Inscription of Darius on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (Behistun Inscription-522-486 BCE)
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Bisotun is located along the ancient trade route linking the Iranian high plateau with Mesopotamia and features remains from the prehistoric times to the Median, Achaemenid, Sassanian, and Ilkhanid periods. The principal monument of this archaeological site is the...
At the inauguration of the new Parliament House, PM Modi will establish the historical and sacred “Sengol” in the Parliament House DATED: 24 MAY 2023 History will repeat itself on Sunday when the new Parliament House will be dedicated...
Ordinance (26 year of Sasana) of Sivapadasekhara Rajakesarivarman (Rajarajadeva) at Tanjavur Temple-900 EC
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On the two-hundred-and-seventy-fifth day of the twenty-fifth year (of his reign), the lord Sri-Rajarajadeva gave one copper water-pot (kuta), to be placed on the copper pinnacle (stupittari) of the sacred shrine (sri-vimana) of the lord of the Sri-Rajarajesvara (temple),...
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