If you think Trikala Sandhyavandanam is religious, think again. In this ancient culture nothing was a commandment, nor was anything religious. Associating Sandhyavandanam to any particular religion or belief is like associating natural resources to a particular religion. Iterating again, there is no concept of religion in this nation. Coming back to Sandhyavandanam; it is…
1 Shruti Box 2 Tamburi or Tanpura 3 Veena 4 Sitar 5 Violin 6 Rudra Veena 7 Ektara 8 Rabab 9 Sur Shringar 10 Sarangi 11 Flute 12 Nadaswaram 13 Alghoza 14 Shringa India is known for its diversity. In fact, the name India is a recent name given to us by the Britishers. India…
For us Indians everything is Holy and God. That includes animals, people, plants, knowledge, tools, etc. Food joins the queue and is on par with Knowledge and Wealth. Food is revered as goddess Annapurneshwari, who is a part of Parvati, the Shakti God. Let us find out what makes us Indians feel this way. Why…
Anything that started in ancient India has been worth a discussion. Be it Art forms like music, dance, games, etc. or health-related programs like yoga, pranayama. We have great branches of diversity in everything that we do. Thanks to our elders who were liberal enough to have respected others’ opinions. In addition to that, old…
1 Bhagat Singh 2 Subhash Chandra Bose 3 Swami Vivekananda 4 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 5 Madan Mohan Malviya 6 Ashfaqulla Jhan 7 Dr. Keshava Baliram Hedgewar India has had multiple invasions. At one point of time, survival amidst slavery was the only choice for her sons. But slowly after 1857 CE, things changed. Sons of…
We were driving in Vadodara. When suddenly I could not let go of the board. It caught my eyes. Further, it read Nalanda Academy for Chemistry. As soon as we see Nalanda, the first thing that comes to our mind is the great Nalanda University. Unfortunately, we deleted this from our very own history. There…
After Y2K (the year two thousand), the world witnessed a lot of changes. A lot of cultural influences both from the west and east saw a great high. It was around approximately the same time or a little later. The word Guru and many other such Indian words were a part of the Oxford English…
It was our school alumni meeting. Therefore, with all the good old memories, we were discussing how simple and funny our lives were. After that, it was time for us to have lunch. Besides, we had one more topic to discuss. Discussion on the place of lunch. However, one of our friends brought to our…
I remember watching TV Serial Mahabharat, like most of us. However, they rendered this shloka as a song. Listening to the shloka in the form of a song was quite impressive. This shloka is from the sacred Bhagawat Gita. As opposed to what is mistakenly narrated by many people as “Yadha Yadhaya Dharmasya“, the actual…