Modern World

Be a Warrior

I had a talk with my son. He wanted to go to special forces. I thought for a while. Go…

8 years ago

There is no Overpopulation!

  “Amogha: They used to think that because there is overpopulation we will go to another planet and then begin…

8 years ago

Muslims are Coming!

I am getting regularly – letters via FB comments and messenger – from Indians and Bangladeshis. Regularly. From men. They…

8 years ago

The How-Not-to-Get-the-Ganja-Smell-on-Your-Hand Bhagavata Gita

Guest (2): My son who lives in America is very Westernized, and as he picked up Gītā, and he tried…

8 years ago

Can society be moral without Varnasrama-dharma?

Over at American Greatness is this piece on recent revelations of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church (bolding added):…

8 years ago

Most scientific studies are wrong

This recent bit of news shows why pratyakṣa (direct sense perception) and anumāna (inference) as pramāṇas are imperfect means of acquiring correct knowledge. Washington (AFP)…

8 years ago

Social Science Requires Theism

Social science must have a theistic basis because the big issues in society cannot be decided merely by measurable characteristics…

8 years ago

People’s Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study (qz.com)

The science is settled. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you? In the paper, published online by University…

8 years ago

A Most Unlikely Sanskrit Enthusiast

Born in Manhattan in 1902 to a pharmacist and a housewife, Berg played baseball at Barringer High School in Newark,…

8 years ago