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...
"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...
Arrival Siem Reap
Hindu cosmology proposes cyclicity. Early animists did observe that everything repeats and hence human life also should repeat. In such...
Shiva and Vishnu
I am sitting in front of five Shiva shrines which might have been a place of utter importance a thousand years ago. Shiva is an...
Bayon (Brahma!)
One notices that the stones are stacked one over the other and there is no grout or mortar. There is also no iron rod or plate...
Baphuon
The Cool Inn was a newly constructed building. So the fittings and the features were expected to be conforming to the current usage. ...
Preh Khan (prekshA!)
Mr Kushal made plans for me. How much time I might spend at a site was my option. The drivers of three-wheelers parked their vehicles...
Palace Temple
Archaeology is a science to study old objects in order to determine history. Most archaeology has been dealing with human skeletons and...
Angkor Wat
Mornings come early in the tropics. Because of the uniformity of day and night, the earth-bound creatures follow a sunlight-oriented...
