Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s decision to honour Sushruta reflects a growing recognition that the history of medicine has always been shaped by exchanges across civilizations. In …
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Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit
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According to Kanada’s Vaisheshika tradition, material objects are ultimately composed of indivisible entities called paramanu. Whenever we talk about Indian Knowledge Systems in public discourse, the discussion quickly …
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Aryabhata’s greatest gift to the world was mathematical formulas and astronomical calculations. But to modern India, it was much deeper: a civilizational example. In 1975, the launch of India’s …
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A broader narrative has emerged in which Indian civilisation is portrayed not as a historically evolving continuum but as a disconnected assemblage of peoples, cultures, and traditions held together …
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When one speaks of modern India’s ideas of culture, civilization, and a sense of being, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy is among the most underappreciated intellectual architects. Because long before …
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There is a tendency in certain sections of intellectual and political discourse to blur the distinction between migration and illegal infiltration. That distinction, however, matters fundamentally. Prime Minister Narendra Modi …
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Essentially, Theravada adheres to the Tripitaka, or the Pali Canon, which represents the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha.
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Ashvaghosha, generally placed around the first-second century CE during the reign of the Kushan ruler Kanishka, is among the earliest known classical Sanskrit poets and dramatists. India has …
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Dharmakirti was a seventh-century Buddhist philosopher and logician, born in the southern reaches of India.
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This bill is the zenith of a decade-long continuum, signalling a profound transition from the archaic notion of women’s development to an era of unyielding women-led development.
