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Yoga uniting nations, cultures and communities through wellness

Rohan Giri / New Delhi Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a three-day state visit to the United States of America where he will lead International Yoga Day congregation at United Nations headquarters in New York. Introduction of Yoga to America can be traced to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Indian philosophers …

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Ridiculing Hindutva is new fashion fad!

Textbooks revision in sync with new education policy, India’s contribution to science & technology must be taught. Prachi Mishra From magazines like Scientific American, Nature to British evolutionary biologist extraordinaire Richard Dawkins, many in global community seems to have been needlessly worked up about revision in syllabi for school going students in India. Dawkins, who …

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Was education in India limited to high caste Hindus?

A lie was propagated as part of larger perception peddling by British imperialists to destroy indigenous systems that flourished across Dr Aniruddh Subhedar Indian history has been a subject of scholarly debates periodically. General perception prevalent was that education in pre-British colonial era being limited and exclusive to upper caste Hindus. People from lower castes …

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