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Hindi Bhakti Poets – The Saints of the Heartland

If Tamil Nadu sang of devotion through the Alwars and Nayanmars, and Karnataka echoed with the vachanas and keerthanas of…

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Kannada Vachanas and Keerthanas – The Voice of the People’s Bhakti

When devotion became the language of the people, poetry ceased to belong only to the learned. It was no longer…

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Shiva’s Gift of Four Spatika Lingas to Adi Shankaracharya

Tradition says that when Ādi Śaṅkarācārya performed penance to Lord Shiva, the Lord appeared and placed in his hands four…

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Shiva’s Gift of Four Spatika Lingas to Adi Shankaracharya

Among the many legends surrounding Ādi Śaṅkarācārya (8th century CE), one of the most cherished is the divine gift he…

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Navaratri – The Nine nights of Celebration!

Navaratri—literally “nine nights”—is one of Bharat’s most-loved festivals, a collective bow to the Divine Feminine (Shakti) in her myriad forms.…

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Vikramaditya: The Legendary King of Dharma and Courage

Among the many radiant figures in the history and folklore of Bhārat, one name echoes with extraordinary brilliance—Vikramāditya. His story…

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Bhārat – The Chosen Land of the Divine

When we look at the sweep of human history, one fact stands out: Bhārat, the land of the Vedas, has…

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Āryāvarta and Bhārata: Sacred Names of the Land in the Scriptures

From the earliest hymns of the Vedas to the later Purāṇas and Dharmaśāstras, the land we today call India has…

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The Queue to Heaven

One evening, I shared this story with a few young friends who had gathered around me. “There was once a…

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Bharat Mata – The Eternal Spirit of a Civilization

When we utter the words Bharat Mata, we are not speaking merely of a landmass, a political entity, or a…

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