In this very enlightening talk, Anand Prasad talks about understanding the Supreme Court ruling on Sabarimala. He questions why is it difficult for the court to see the traditional Indian viewpoint? The notion is that a secular State is viewed as a godless state, as against a State that accepts
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In the 1790s, British philologist and founder of the Asiatic Society of India, William Jones made an erroneous correlation between the Indian kings Xandrames and Sandracottus mentioned in Greek historical accounts during Alexander’s invasion of India in 323 BCE, with Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Empire. This correlation
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[This video was recorded on March 23, 2019] A historic day dawned on India on the morning of August 5 when GoI scrapped Article 370 rendering Article 35 A null and void and giving the status of Union Territories to Ladakh and J&K. Thank you, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and
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Ironically, India is the only country where the majority religious community is being discriminated against. Various state governments through their respective Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) Acts have assumed financial and management control of thousands of Hindu temples across India. They did this under alleged accusations of
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Ironically, India is the only country where the majority religious community is being discriminated against. Various state governments through their respective Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) Acts have assumed financial and management control of thousands of Hindu temples across India. They did this under alleged accusations of
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Ironically, India is the only country where the majority religious community is being discriminated against. Various state governments through their respective Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) Acts have assumed financial and management control of thousands of Hindu temples across India. They did this under alleged accusations of
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Ironically, India is the only country where the majority religious community is being discriminated against. Various state governments through their respective Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) Acts have assumed financial and management control of thousands of Hindu temples across India. They did this under alleged accusations of
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Shri Sankrant Sanu answers questions on the topic ‘Protection of Native Traditions". Main Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5Wz... He lays bare the asymmetry of doctrine and resources as well as the underbelly of a deeply-entrenched systemic, strategic framework that the proselytizers have been using their advantage for decades. A must-listen-to Q/A session, that
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Trifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir is a national requirement. It’s exigency of the time. Its division into Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh States will end the 71-year-old menace of discrimination against these two provinces, which constitute J&K’s 89% of the State’s land area and house half of the state’s population. It
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As the intellectual fountainhead and founder of what is termed as “Hindu nationalism,” Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has emerged as one of the most controversial Indian political thinkers of the 20th Century. This lecture explores the lesser known role and contribution of Savarkar as a revolutionary figure and interprets the impact
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Shri Sankrant Sanu speaks on the Freedom of Religion Act giving emphasis on the two notions arising from native traditions vs. proselytizing ones, and which one of the two deserves privilege from the Indian state. He lays bare the asymmetry of doctrine and resources as well as the underbelly of a
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The adherents of the dharmic school of philosophies such as Shad-darshanas tend to emphasize the differences rather than comprehending the complementary nature of these darshanas. This resulted in attempts to reach a compromise and such attempts have led to artificial compromise where real issues are left to the sidelines. This
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#AIT #AITDebunked #SrijanTalks Indian history, or what we have been taught by way of history in India, has many strange paradoxes that are hard to explain to rational, inquiring minds. At the root of these paradoxes is the Colonial Ideological Offensive, imposed by British historians steeped in Biblical tradition. These historians
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In the late 18th century a British Magazine called the Gentleman’s Magazine carried a fascinating piece of information regarding an Indian bullock cart driver named Cowasjee who had his nose cut off during a war. The magazine reported that Cowasjee had a surgery performed to restore his nose in the
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After an eye-opening talk on the need to amend Articles 26-30 of the Indian Constitution, Hariprasad N answers the question of people who came to attend the lecture. He also highlights that the subsections of these Acts are misinterpreted and it’s only the Hindu religion that suffers the most because
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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker, art historian and photographer Benoy Behl interacts with the audience after his enthralling talk at the Srijan Foundation. He addresses questions about India's rich art heritage and how it survived the vagaries of nature for centuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQaGFfDoSc&t=325s
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Surya Siddhanta, arguably the most ancient book on Indian astronomy, is a highly advanced and accurate treatise in Hindu astronomy that is widely respected all over the world for its highly developed scientific and astronomical concepts regarding the cosmos. As per Hindu tradition, the Sun God, Surya is said to
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Indian history, or what we have been taught by way of history in India, has many strange paradoxes which are hard to explain to rational, inquiring minds. At the root of these paradoxes is the Colonial Ideological Offensive, imposed by British historians steeped in Biblical tradition. These historians simply could
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Watch the main Talk here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3ot... Shri. Abhitosh Tripathi shares the story of a dioecious flowering plant Hemp or Marijuana, it's medicinal and business uses and sheds light on its past and present. Used for centuries in India in forms such as bhang, this was discovered by the Western world only
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Shri. Abhitosh Tripathi shares the story of a dioecious flowering plant Hemp or Marijuana, it's medicinal and business uses and sheds light on its past and present. Used for centuries in India in forms such as bhang, this was discovered by the Western world only after 1498. There is plethora of
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In this very important talk, Hariprasad N highlights the need to amend Articles 26 to 30 of the Indian Constitution if Hindu community wants to thrive as a Dharmic society. He also highlights that the subsections of these Acts are misinterpreted and it’s only the Hindu religion that suffers the most
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The tradition of art in India goes back to antiquity. Richly evolved and refined, art was quintessentially a spiritual practice and was seen as an expression of philosophic thought in ancient India. The experience of art was aimed at creating a sublime moment of uninterrupted unification with the ‘Spirit within
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The story of India’s economy under the Nehruvian socialist framework has been a stunted one. Afflicted with License Raj, political patronage and crony favoritism, the Indian economy functioned largely as a political economy that bred an ecosystem of corruption and economic stagnation for nearly four decades after Independence. Even as
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A vast majority of well-intentioned, patriotic Indians believe in the Constitution of India as a sacrosanct foundational stone of the Indian Republic upon which stands the hallowed shrine of Democracy. Not many, however, are aware that the Constitution of India is largely framed on the 1935 British Act of India,
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The story of India’s economy under the Nehruvian socialist framework has been a stunted one. Afflicted with License Raj, political patronage and crony favoritism, the Indian economy functioned largely as a political economy that bred an ecosystem of corruption and economic stagnation for nearly four decades after Independence. Even as
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Having penetrated the social, political, administrative, academic, artistic and media spaces in the Indian urbanized ecosphere, Urban Naxals have dominated the intellectual turf, reducing anyone who thinks outside of their box into a subaltern nobody. They have mastered the art of cultivating and fostering their preferred narrative, the ONLY acceptable
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In a conversation with Maria Wirth, author of the book “Thank you India – a German woman’s journey to the wisdom of yoga. The discourse on religion in India has been allowed to go on lopsided for far too long. Maria Wirth raises tough issues Indians themselves shy away from. Her astute
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The Indic civilization has had rich, hoary Kshatriya traditions which gave rise to equally rich and profound martial traditions like the Sanatan Shastra Vidya, which literally means the ‘timeless science of weapons.’ This ancient art of battle is traced back to Adi Deva Shiva who gave this knowledge to Pashupats,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3beGhULPDeM&t=1272s Sanjay Dixit ji answers questions on Hindu Pakistan Talk. IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, Sanjay Dixit, talks about the Quest to establish The Land Of Pure, Pakistan was started after the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb with the rise of the Maratha Empire, he also talks about the fundamental differences of the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukoPLe1X0hA&t=133s What are the events that create trans-generational trauma? Genocide war, ethnic violence... many of them... Last century was a century of genocides. It went into denial when it saw its temples desecrated, when it saw its places destroyed. One could not express rage, for example in Aurangzeb's time, could we?
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Q & A Session of Relevance Of Shiv Agamas For Hindus Today – Srijan Talk by Arti Agarwal Shiva Agamas are essentially the Applied Science of ancient Hindu Spirituality that offer lasting solutions to the myriad problems faced by humankind. About Speaker : Arti Agarwal is a devotee of Lord Shiva, disciple
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Trans -Generational Trauma and Hindu Resistance : Western psychologists have examined in great detail the effects of collective intergenerational trauma faced by survivors of Jewish Holocaust and Armenian Genocide. Yet, the world is still in the dark about the transgenerational trauma faced by Hindus in India during genocidal violence of
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8aJl42DME&t=86s Numerical systems across most ancient civilizations developed using similar linear patterns of counting. For primitive hunter-gatherer societies, a linear scale that facilitated counting the number of animals killed or artefacts bartered seemed sufficient. In a more complex and flourishing agrarian society like India, the need to study natural phenomena like
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GUgBvBMuOw&t=214s So, thanks, a I thanks to Rahul ji and everyone at Srijan Foundation for inviting me here to give this talk. And my today’s talk here is on the Shiv Agamas and before I go ahead with the talk, I just wanted to mention that you know everything I know,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8bEoiti7E&t=559s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rqjIqLkp4s&t=3342s Has anybody read that article written in 2003? Only few people have read it….. Ok that’s good. Even I had to revise that as it was article of way back in 2003. I had written just an article but not given any talk over it. This article had gone viral,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIPVdbWBQpg&t=1274s Namaskar. I am thankful to Srijan Foundation for calling me here today. When Rahul ji contacted me first and he gave me a bouquet of choices for speaking on a topic, I thought that I would speak on a topic which is quite current these days, in fact quite fashionable in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGmlbUVv28&t=3397s Anand Ranganathan makes a case for why it is B R Ambedkar and not Mahatma Gandhi who deserves the honorific title of “Father of the Nation” for his indispensable contribution in the making of modern India, in drafting the Constitution, and more importantly, for his pivotal efforts to get the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8r5t56AR8&t=2565s Namaste. I hope you can understand my pronunciation and I want to tell you that there must be many among you who know much more about Sanatana dharma. And I accepted the invitation not because I know more about Sanatana dharma but because I grew up as a Christian and may
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To understand the impact of Modinomics, it is imperative to first contextualize it. From a time when the Indian per capita income was higher than the British per capita income to the dubious distinction of being an extremely poor country down the millennium, the Indian economy has suffered a longstanding
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRi-W4uM8g&t=580s Namaskaar to all of you in lieu of a prayer Mangalaacharan. I'll show you this a map of India within its neighborhood, within her neighborhood. This is a very interesting map so as you can see, this is this is our India, this area and if you look behind you have
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Srijan Foundation organized a talk of Mrugendra Vinod, at INTACH, New Delhi. Here is the first part of the Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfW4iLBgxg8&t=206s Namaskar, I am Mrugendra Vinod. From AnandavanSamudaya. We have been working as introduced. We have been studying Vedas in the traditional way. And, when we saw that the present-day scholarship which basically
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Srijan Foundation Organized a talk of Mrugendra Vinodh at INATCH, New Delhi. Here is the second part of the talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GA29oqlCko&t=655s So, now let us come to the internal evidence of geography. I will be I'm, if you can again the passages ultimately, you understand. I have limitation. I am basically dealing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKOtc2gKTs&t=62s Now, this is of a little different genre, title as you can see the identification of unicorn and cult object. Now those who are not familiar, I will be showing them, and now these are the seals. How many of them? Again, mount of evidence. Detailed speculation, big evidence. Ok?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviYeA4fIPM&t=2393s So in the years that I have been living outside India, I get a lot of questions like: how is it that you Indians are motivated to study so hard? What is it that makes you study so hard? And another question I get very often is that why despite
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The Srijan Foundation organized a talk of Sri. Ratnakar Sadasyula at New Delhi. The topic of the talk was ‘Vijayanagara: The City of Victory”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QruuNq0w_g Transcript: - What I try to do is just bring a, give us, you know try to give us a summary and a overall idea about Vijayanagara, Fine. So the
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