Sanskrit

India “mother of democracy”: A social media rage cuts to size a WSJ writer’s abusive rant

Bhumika Arora - September 27, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently addressed the 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York and said that he represents a country that is...

Yogi govt gets 6,500 people to learn Sanskrit in three months

Newsbred Staff - September 27, 2021

The Yogi Adityanath government has taught simple Sanskrit language to more than 6,500 people in three months to mark its commitment to promote the...

Hindi, Sankrit no; Urdu yes in Jharkhand for job exams

Newsbred Staff - August 9, 2021

The Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government, which often remains in controversy, is currently facing massive backlash from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its new...

Hinduphobia in academia: An agenda which shows no stopping

Bhumika Arora - January 28, 2021

(HInduphobia in academia is the work of a few Indian and Western scholars which has spawned an industry. Here we reproduce an insight from...

Mumbai is in news for all the wrong reasons: But then nobody told you about ‘Gateway’

Veeresh Malik - September 6, 2020

This article was supposed to carry forward the previous read about the Delhi Gymkhana with one on the Breach Candy Club in Mumbai, but went...

Muslim student scores perfect 100 in Sanskrit in CBSE exams

Newsbred Staff - July 16, 2020

A young Muslim student of DPS Greater Noida, Muhammad Zaid Hassan, has caught the eye by scoring a perfect 100 in Sanskrit of all...

Padmavati: History as per se Times of India

Ashish Shukla - January 29, 2017

My first instinct on reading this Times of India (29.1.2017) headline was that the likes of Romilla Thapar and Irfan Habib have been pressed...

India’s “Second Independence”: the real deal

Ashish Shukla - December 23, 2016

We are entering into a stretch of political landscape which could simply be termed as the “Second Independence” of India in coming years. The BJP...

‘Quantum physics owes much to Vedic sciences’

Newsbred Staff - September 8, 2016

(Dr. Subhash Kak is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He is also a renowned authority...

Indus Era: The Aryan theory propaganda

Ashish Shukla - May 29, 2016

“Decolonisation of our minds could only begin when we start to consider that our history might be what the others did not write. “...

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