Con­text of Devel­op­ment In Indi­an civ­i­liza­tion, we saw that Geom­e­try orig­i­nat­ed in a very remote age in con­nec­tion with the...

Overview of Śul­basū­tras The class of texts called Śul­basū­tras form a part of Kalpa, which is one of the Vedāṅ­gas. The term Vedāṅ­ga...

Ear­li­est Evi­dence of Num­bers The usage of num­bers would indi­cate the ear­li­est sign of Gaṇitā. In the Vedic era, there is...

- by Pra­j­na Cau­very Among the finest and fiercest devotees of Lord Shiva, stands Akka Mahadevi, the 12th-century woman saint and poet....

In Indi­an astron­o­my the move­ment of sev­er­al celes­tial objects are described from the per­spec­tive of the observ­er on earth. Be...

Human val­ues and atti­tudes lie at the heart of achiev­ing sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Yes, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and sound...

Under­stand­ing the Ori­gin The sci­ence of Astron­o­my — Jyotiṣa has fas­ci­nat­ed humans from ear­li­est times and regard­ed by many as...

Astrounl Sim­u­la­tor In one of our Mahab­hara­ta ses­sions, the ques­tion was: Q: Dur­ing my sis­ter’s wed­ding I noticed that the...

Bhoo­mi Devi is our Sacred God­dess Moth­er Earth. She is the moth­er of every life that has ever tak­en birth from her and has lived...

By Smt Smrithi Adi­narayanan Once Mul­la Nas­rud­din went to a shop. He asked the shop­keep­er, “Do you have nails?” The shop keep­er...

by Smt Smrithi Adi­narayanan When­ev­er we think of an ide­al stu­dent, Arju­na’s name comes to our mind. He was con­sid­ered to be the...

The sto­ry of Parashu­ra­ma and Kar­tavir­yarju­na Now, there lives a very pow­er­ful war­rior called Kar­tavir­yarju­na, of the...

Are test-tube babies and in vit­ro fer­til­iza­tion won­ders of mod­ern med­i­cine? Or were these a part of a deep sci­ence that was...

by Var­alak­sh­mi Lak­sh­mi­narayanan With grow­ing com­plex­i­ties of the real and vir­tu­al world, men­tal health has become a...

(Extract­ed from Sat­sang­ha with Shri Adi­narayanan, Mahashiv­ara­tri 2017) In the Indi­an shas­tras, the word ‘kar­ma’ is often used....

In the Prashon­ot­tara Rat­na Mali­ka of Adi Sankaracharya, it is beau­ti­ful­ly men­tioned that there are only two places to be. In the...

Con­crete is the most con­sumed resource on the plan­et, after water. Cement, the key ingre­di­ent in con­crete, has shaped much of our...

In our pre­vi­ous post, we had nar­rat­ed how Tul­si­das had immense love for his wife and his wife’s words became instru­men­tal in...