Ayodhya, Sri Rama and Us
From poets, philosophers and godmen, to politicians, athletes and movie stars, all kinds of celebrities…
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The Signs of Vedic Culture in the Middle East
Starting from India and heading to the west, this area had strong contacts with ancient India…
Chanakya’s View on City Planning – ‘A Model for the Future’?
(continued from earlier series…) As urbanization and globalization continue apace, cities will become the front…
Guru Purnima: Origin, Meaning, Practice
In the word Guru, “gu” means darkness or ignorance, “ru” stands for remover of that…
Vedic Influence in North America
In a widely propagated and popularly accepted theory, Christopher Columbus is the man credited with…
Climate Change and Ancient Indian Town Planning
(Continued from previous article) The advanced cities of 21st century contribute to nearly 80% of…
Vyaasa, The Greatest School of Critique
Criticizing and being criticized are part of our daily life. We are surrounded by it…
The Vedic Metaphor of Indra’s Net
Indra’s Net is a metaphor for the profound cosmology and outlook that permeates Hinduism. Indra’s…
Traditional Knowledge Systems
It is now recognized that western criteria are not the sole benchmark by which other…
Ancient Indian Town Planning and Architectural Paradigms
According to the United Nations report launched in 2014, more than 54% of the world’s…
Vedic Influence in Iraq and Iran
Long, before the advent of Islam, even as early as the third millennium BCE, India…
Vedic Influence in Japan and Korea
Excerpts from the book Mysteries of the Ancient Vedic Empire by Stephen Knapp Japanese scholar…
India’s Ancient and Great Maritime History
(An Excerpt from Advancements of Ancient India’s Vedic Culture, by Stephen Knapp and reposted from…
Ramayana Sites in Sri Lanka
(reposted from http://www.stephen-knapp.com/ramayana_sites_in_sri_lanka.htm)The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and an…
We need to support Ayurveda just like we did with yoga
Today we see a Nobel Prize awarded for work in traditional Chinese medicine. This raises…
A Yogi revives Yoga in India
For the first time, an International Yoga Day will be celebrated on 21st of June…
Will Indian psychology finally be rediscovered?
This article is about a conference on Indian psychology that took place in 2002 in…