Raghavan Srinivasan’s 'Quick and Concise: Indian Philosophy' present a bird’s eye view of the vast canvas of the Indian philosophical thought.

The Infosys founder's rather insensitive statement of a 70-hour work week advances the view that society is 'justly unequal' in meritocracy as against the old system, which was unjust, because it was 'unjustly unequal'.

The sharp exchange between Udhayanidhi Stalin and the BJP points to the wide gap between the pre-19th century meaning of Sanatana Dharma and its 19th-century position as a signifier of orthodoxy.

His monolithic view of Hinduism may serve the agenda of the RSS and its pro-Hindutva adherents but falls far short of the standards of philosophical and historical scholarship.

Critical remarks made by Kerala minister M.B. Rajesh about the Vedantic exponent were rebuked by the Union minister V. Muraleedharan. Excerpts from Shankara's philosophy vindicate the former's views.

The Indian Council of Historical Research circulated a concept note, which, in its endeavour to present the ancient Indian political systems in a good light, draws a false equivalence of Sanskrit terms with the ideas of modern political discourse.

Why does a fair chunk of educated professionals hold views about the superiority of ancient Hindu civilisation?

There are many examples which make it difficult to reconcile the contradictory ideas of a person as a rational being and as one driven by (mostly blind) faith.

As Hindu groups rekindle the claim that the Shahi Idgah in Mathura stands on the site of Lord Krishna's birth, it becomes pertinent to revisit the Supreme Court's Ayodhya judgment to see how it dealt with claims about the 'birthplace' of Lord Ram.

The book is full of obscurantist themes and ideas which require critical engagement of the kind school teachers will not be willing or able to provide.

In their written works, the two atheists broke down the hidden agenda of religion where the privileged class invents false theories within a religious framework and brings about an exploitative system.

Nobody asks why Shah Jahan did not target the architects – for the Taj is really the manifestation of their imagination – and instead only concentrated on workers.

Golwalkar privileges the Vedic faith, its obscurantist beliefs and practices like varnashrama, as constituting the ancient Hindu Rashtra, but without any textual basis.

It is certainly not K.S. Bhagwan's way.

It is very difficult to reconcile Patanjali’s yoga sutra with modern postural yoga, even though the practitioners of postural yoga take it to be a foundational text.

The dismissal of a theory for scientific wrongness should be preceded, or accompanied, by an understanding of what science is. Does the minister know this?