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A 19th Century Murder that Excavated a Second-Century Sanskrit Manuscript: Episode One
How the brutal murder of a 19th century British trader led to the unlikely discovery of a valuable 2nd century Sanskrit Manuscript. The story begins with the British explorer, tea-planter and diplomat Robert Barkley Shaw who established the Central Asian Trading Company in 1873 to trade primarily in Indian tea.
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Jamba Lakidi Pamba: An Underrated Telugu Classic that Predicted the Woke Epidemic
An in-depth analysis of the 1992 Telugu blockbuster, Jamba Lakidi Pamba, which predicted the Woke phenomenon. The pre-climax scene of the Telugu blockbuster, Jamba Lakidi Pamba, was an eerie prediction of a sinister reality that is exploding out of control in the United States. In the scene, a Swami foretells how society will hurtle into…
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The Last Days of a Sadhvi
A profoundly moving episode of the last days of Sri C. Vasudevaiah’s sister-in-law shows what the Hindu society has really lost. Channapattana Vasudevaiah was once a household name in Karnataka, affectionately renowned for his elementary schoolbooks teaching the basics of Kannada grammar and composition to children. Titled “Kannaḍa bāla bōdhe” (a rough translation is “Kannada…