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Ancient Hindu Science
How 5,000-year-old ayurveda taught a Cornell-and-Harvard-trained doctor not to fear cancer
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Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a practicing physician-scientist, assistant professor and author. A 2014 senior Fulbright Scholar, she is Clinical Asst Professor of Family Medicine...
Westerners Stealing Hindu Intellectual Property is More Than Plagiarism
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Colonial or a white supremacy mindset may be clever enough to adopt Hindu practices but denies giving credit where it is due. Stealing Hindu...
The Secret of the Veda
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Most people are perplexed about the Vedas. Very few have read them, and those who have find them difficult to understand. They can’t make...
Cosmology and Consciousness: A Comparative Study of Hindu Metaphysics and Physics
The latest theory of Cosmology, ‘Cycles of Time’, as put forth by Roger Penrose and debated by others including Stephen Hawking who has written...
The Magnetic Pull of Bharat’s Soft Power
The word “soft power” was first coined by Harvard scholar Joseph Nye. He described this term as the ability to attract and co-opt, rather...
Bharatiya Traditional Knowledge: A Public Policy Perspective
Recently, twitter witnessed huge outrage over an article tweeted by American Scientific Association which referred to the ancient yogic technique of Pranayam as "Cardiac...
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 3
The Axis and the Perimeter
The Agniksetra or the later temple plan of the Vedic ritual represents two significant numbers, 180 and 54, which, when doubled,...
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 2
The Altar as a Representation of the Cosmos
The Śatapatha Br. informs us that the altar is to represent the mystery of time. Its dimensions are...
History of Medicine: Ancient Bharatiya Nose Jobs & the Origins of Plastic Surgery
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Think plastic surgery is a modern luxury? Think again. It turns out that the roots of cosmetic and reconstructive procedures go back more than...
The Axis and the Perimeter of the Temple – Part 1
Canonical texts describing the plan of the Hindu temple allude to its astronomical basis, and in this Bharatiya sacred geometry is not different in...