FeaturedPosted on August 5, 2018June 28, 2019 Fact check: Is the 2018/08/02 piece by Sunil Menon and Siddhartha Mishra in Outlook not an example of fake news/information being propagated?
FeaturedPosted on July 22, 2018February 8, 2020 2012 Cambridge-published Tirthankar Roy’s book “India in the World Economy – From Antiquity to the Present”: Two observations
FeaturedPosted on October 10, 2016March 24, 2017 Slow reading of some ‘lines’ of the Founder of Murty Classical Library of India
FeaturedPosted on September 23, 2016February 19, 2020 Consideration of Indian (literary) Classicism as depicted by Professor Sheldon Pollock and identifying some of its implications
FeaturedPosted on September 1, 2016October 30, 2017 A limited response to Meera Nanda’s essay “Hindutva’s science envy” in Frontline
Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 A response to some views expressed by the Chair of the World Sanskrit Conference (2021) about श्री राम (śrī rāma)
Posted on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019 गणितं (gaṇitaṃ) in c. 1370 BCE वेदाङ्ग ज्योतिष (vedāṅga jyotiṣa) attributed to ऋषि लगध (ṛṣi lagadha) | National Mathematics Day (Dec 22, 2019)
Posted on December 4, 2019December 5, 2019 ‘Chariot’, ‘chariot-makers’ and ‘rathakāra’ in Joel Brereton’s introduction to the “Proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop”: A response
Posted on December 1, 2019December 1, 2019 Changes noticed in the history narrative of Ancient India, in the National Portal of India, after engagement through RTI No. 3-259/2016-ICHR/RTI and related grievances PMOPG/E/2017/0123386 and MINIT/E/2017/01091
Posted on November 15, 2019November 15, 2019 Protected: On ‘jurisprudence’: Iain McLean’s Adam Smith versus Balbir Singh Sihag’s विष्णुगुप्त (Viṣṇugupta)
Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 On being “liberal”: Daniel Klein’s Adam Smith versus Balbir Singh Sihag’s विष्णुगुप्त (Viṣṇugupta)
Posted on November 7, 2019November 12, 2019 3600 – 2300 years ago (Oxford authentication certified) Terracotta tablet sample number N119f21 | At least two explanations thus far, from Mahābhārata
