Archive for November, 2012

Takshashila: The world’s first known university
At least 2,800 years ago, circa 800BCE, there existed a giant University at Takshashila (often called Taxila), a town located in the north-western region of India (in today’s Pakistan). According to references in the Ramayana...

Vajra Mushti : Style of the Thunderbolt Fist
Prior to his training in Brazil in the late 80’s, author and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt, John Will, travelled to and trained in some of the most exotic places in Asia and the sub-continent.It was during those trave...

Hindu Mind of Science
In our modernist parlance science and religion are held to be polar opposites. Scientific is equated with being rational, logical and in tune with reason. Religion however is seen as backward, laughable and regressive, as well ...

Vedic Dawn : The Spiritual Reawakening
The subcontinent of India is a vast geographical region that has developed its own unique and yet very diverse culture over the past ten thousand years or more. These developments in India have been aided by the development ...