Introduction
Early Indians coined a word "rasa" to assign signature to an object. "rasa" has no physical manifesation but is experienced when we...
Blessings in Mumbai
I left Boston June 22 and reached Mumbai June 24 by an Air France flight. I stayed a couple of days with my old college friend Sri J. K....
Thailand and World Sanskrit Conference
The Malaysaian Airways flight went via Kualalumpur. I reached Bangkok about 10:30 AM on the 27th June. Prem Nagar, one of the...
The Vedas and Panini
The Vedas of India are known to be the oldest existing literature in the world. Literature has a value proposition to it as against the...
Stay at Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn is a world-wide chain, the current hotel is a massive structure. Bangkok is known for its tourist industry and the city and...
WSC XVI Inauguration
South Asian languages have been devastated through Anglicization. There was a zeal by the Jesuit priests to "educate" the natives and...
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit is not an easy language to master. It captures the essence of human communication and prepares a framework as our mind prepares...
Plenary Session, Ramayana in Thailand
Among the many contributions of Indian thinkers to the world is the discovery of human mind as a major component in operating human life....
"India Studies" and the West
Indian knowledge system in the early period of India got organized into six distinct branches of inquiry. There is no orderly...
Rasa-Sankhya and Musings on Language
The traditional Indian schooling was offered through residential institutions called "gurukula" that existed in various population...
