[Guest Post] Decoding the Intellectual Kurukshetra February 2, 2016UncategorizedElite, High Culture, History, Identity, Purva Paksha, SocietyAdmin The following Post was composed by Shivoham. You can follow him here on Twitter. This blog is about contemporary India, but we start with a bit of European history. Part-1: 20th Century Europe Alan Turing In 1939, ace computer … Read the rest
Reviving Shakti: Restoring Feminine Balance in Indic Society January 26, 2016UncategorizedCulture, Dharma, History, ICS, Identity, India, Shakti, SocietyNilambari The following Post was published at Andhra Cultural Portal on February 22, 2015 Switch on the TV and with almost frightening regularity you will see an instance of horrendous rape being reported or a young girl being snuffed in the … Read the rest
[Reprint Post] Culture: The Cure for Stupidity August 24, 2015UncategorizedBharatavarsha, Culture, Dharma, Elite, High Culture, History, ICS, India, Pop Culture, SocietyAdmin A version of this Post was published at Andhra Cultural Portal on April 14, 2015 There is an old and ancient saying that you can’t fix stupid or “you can’t cure stupidity”. We disagree. Concluding our Series on Indian Stupidity, … Read the rest
[Reprint Post] Origins of Indian Stupidity August 22, 2015UncategorizedBharatavarsha, Culture, Elite, History, India, Pop Culture, SocietyAdmin A version of this Post was published on Andhra Cultural Portal on December 4, 2014. Continuing our Series on “Are We a Serious People?”, is our Fourth Installment: Origins of Indian Stupidity. In our previous piece we touched … Read the rest
[Reprint Post] On the Importance of History August 18, 2015UncategorizedCulture, Elite, History, ICS, India, Politics, Regional, SubcontinentAdmin A version of this Post was published on Andhra Cultural Portal on May 21, 2014 While this is by now a line so well known that it is almost cliche, few of us meditate on it. But what is lesser … Read the rest
