EDUCATION BEFORE AND AFTER MACAULAY
Vedas say Sa vidya ya vimuktaye, in other words, ‘that it is Gyan which liberates us’. Our ancients put gyan on the highest…
Author: Tulika Sharma
Power of Thought
Thoughts form a major portion of our being. Millions of thoughts run through our mind from morning till night, seldom…
The Secret Ingredient: Compassion
Compassion is a quality that is supposed to be inherent to humans; it was, in our ancestors. Its expression found…
Consciousness: A Scientific Reality
Consciousness. I was introduced to this term in one of the discourses of Yogi Ashwini as I sat in the…
All the soil gone in 60 years? What will happen?
Scientists project that at the current rate of soil degradation, all of worlds topsoil may be gone in 60 years.…
Education Rewritten – Myths busted
All those who’ve been educated in schools propagating western-style education, do you remember what you were taught? Has it opened…
How world learnt the art of plastic surgery
Around 600 BC in the historic town of Kashi, popularly known as Benaras, there lived an old man. No one…
Keeping Time With The Rishis
Indians, since ancient times, have forayed into almost all disciplines of knowledge, particularly, sciences like Physics, Meteorology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy,…
Hydrology In Ancient India
Sir John Woodroffe once said, “those who say their ancestors were apes, theirs must have been…mine were not.” I concur.…
Veterinary Science In Ancient India
A tradition of veterinary therapy developed very early in India. Based on Ayurveda, Indian veterinary medicine is known for its…
Unravelling Our Vedic Roots Part II
Indian history is peppered with a lot of invasions and rules. Even though the history books have been distorted, the…
Ancient Advances In Shipbuilding And Seafaring
“The United States adopted ancient Indian catamaran-making technology to construct fast ships which were used with dramatic effect in the…
Era Of RAM …History or Mythology?
We know the story of Ram through Valmiki’s Ramayana. Many take the stories from the Puranas to be mythology; I…
Renaissance Of Vedic Medicine
Anti-ageing effect of rasayans Charaka Samhita (Chikitsa sthana 1.1.8) mentions that, ‘Labhopayo hi shastanam rasadinam rasayanam’, that is, rasayans are…