Bringing Dharma to you
Essays, panel recaps, and reflections on Dharma in the modern world.
Reclaiming the Conversation: An Upanishadic Blueprint for the Digital Generation Gap
If a home only satisfies a child’s physical needs for food and shelter (Body) and
issues commands about performance (Intellect), the child will naturally turn to the internet to satisfy their emotional hunger for connection and self-expression (Mind).
Reclaiming the Conversation: An Upanishadic Blueprint for the Digital Generation Gap
If a home only satisfies a child’s physical needs for food and shelter (Body) and
issues commands about performance (Intellect), the child will naturally turn to the internet to satisfy their emotional hunger for connection and self-expression (Mind).
1) How can we sustain family cohesion when every generation lives in a different digital reality?
2) How do we pass on shared purpose
1) How do we find a way to live by awareness rather than algorithms?
2) How can we practice Dharma in a world driven
1) AI optimises for frequency, not truth — how do we counter manufactured Maya with Satya?
2) How do we strengthen the antahkarana —
1) When AI can retrieve any fact in milliseconds, what is education actually for?
2) How do we move from information transfer to wisdom
1) What does it truly mean to be healthy
versus simply not being sick?
2) How can we maintain mental-physical
alignment in
1) How do we move from “minimizing damage” to regenerative living?
2) Can ancient Dharmic concepts of Rina (debt to nature & ancestors) reshape
There is a well-known, much celebrated Hindu adage. It is often engaged as a Hindu way of understanding the diversity of religious traditions in the
It is said that during a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when the prayer was being said, half the congregants stood up
There are fundamentally three motivations for funding the study of Dharma in general and Hindu Dharma in particular, in main-stream academic Universities that underlie the
One of the foundations of Indian Civilization (also called Indic or Bharatiya – to use a Sanskrit word) is the conception of the human potential
Article 28-1 of the Indian constitution says that “No religious instruction shall be provided in any educational institution wholly maintained out of State funds”. In
There are two dominant ideas of India, at least, playing out as the great Secular–Communal divide in the theater of India’s political battleground – its
The recent PEW Research Center findings on America’s religious landscape revealed that approximately 56 million Americans are religiously unaffiliated and belong to the category of
When approaching the systematic academic study of Religion in academic settings, there are two fundamental positions that a scholar may lean towards – the position
The phenomenon of how the secular orientation expressed through the hermeneutics of suspicion distorts the study of Hinduism is best illustrated through the use of
Dharma Chintana Ultimately, a civilization rests on its ability to transmit its values, goals and aims, priorities, practices, rituals, art, science and knowledge systems, spirituality,
This Roundtable discussion at the World History Association Conference, examines the ongoing problems associated with the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory, and the controversies involving the late-18th