Guru Purnima

Gurvina  gulaamanaaguva  thanaka Doreyadanna  mukuthi Till you surrender yourself to your Guru, you will not get salvation– sings the Sangeeta Pitamaha, Sri Purandara Vitthala...

Bisalpur or Vigrahapura was founded by the Chahamana ruler Vigraharaja IV in the twelfth century AD.

over-emphasizing Tarain (1191-92)

“Moreover, the Ghaznavid position in the Panjab could not have been maintained by a purely quiescent leadership, for there was still fierce Hindu resistance in northern India to the Muslim armies in the later 12th century. It was only as a result of the victories of the Ghurid Mu'izzddin Muhammad, and especially, the second battle of Tarain or Taraori near Karnal in 1192, the killing of the Chauhan or Chahamana monarch Prithviraja and the occupation of Delhi, that there was a general collapse of Hindu resistance leading to the opening-up of the Ganges plain for the muslims to raid as far eastwards as Bengal.” Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids: Splendour and Decay

The netflix nix: Challenges with (mis)representations of Hindu dharma in modern media

The Hindu carries the responsibility of representing the oldest and most diverse religion that is the third largest in the world when it comes to number of followers. Recently, Netflix has faced a lot of criticism for producing shows that singularly target Hindus in a negative manner. But this is not the first time this happened, nor will it be the last. How we deal with misrepresentations of Hindu Dharma in modern media is a challenge for our generation.