Why old Ghaggar cannot be the Rigvedic river Sarasvati?
Rajesh Kochhar Sarasvati is the most celebrated river in the Rigveda on whose banks numerous hymns were composed. While many rivers are merely named, Sarasvati is described at length…
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Mahatma Gandhi’s engagement with Hindu heritage
Rajesh Kochhar Mahatma Gandhi was not a Gandhian. Gandhism as a political philosophy emerges from an examination of his actions and a study of his writings. For…
Hell with Max Muller. Long live Max Muller
Rajesh Kochhar Germany-born, Oxford-based, Sanskritist Professor Max Muller was an influential figure of his time. The eminent Indian Sanskrit scholar of the day, Rajah Radha Kant Deb, called him a…
The cow is dead: Long live dead cow
Rajesh Kochhar If the nefarious Indian caste system with its inhuman rigidity has survived for so long it is because it did not interfere with economics. Even when India was…
Ancient India: Discovery, invention and uses
Rajesh Kochhar Paper presented at British Scholar Conference ‘Britain and the World’ King’s College London23 June 2016 Physical conquest of India by the British was relatively a simple affair…
Mahashivaratri, astronomically speaking
Rajesh Kochhar There is a difference between Shivaratri and Mahashivaratri. There are in fact 12 Shivaratris, one of which is designated Maha for a specific reason. Moon becomes invisible…
Indian TV channels and their contempt for Hindi
Rajesh Kochhar Nowhere in the world would you find such disrespect for grammar, syntax and pronunciation as on Indian Hindi TV channels. Roman alphabet is grossly inadequate for representing Indian…