Book Review Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra

Book Review, Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith, Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal An Indian Soul in a European Body? by Kathleen Taylor Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

Self Knowledge by Nome Book Review Prabuddha Bharata November 2010

Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies: The Case of India by Ragini Sen, Wolfgang Wagner, and Caroline Howarth Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2015

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]

This book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and i…[Read more]

Nileen Putatunda is a bright young man with a facile pen that betrays his erudition. A humble soul, his writings touch one’s mind. This latest addition to his many poetry collections surprises even the reader who follows Putatunda’s writings. This volume contains more than ninety poems with the date and place of the creation and occasional cre…[Read more]

Signe Cohen has done a marvelous job of editing and authoring the majority of the chapters in The Upanishads, giving readers a rich treatment of the history, culture, and philosophy contained within them. Her introduction sheds light on many aspects of the Upanishads. It is interesting, though, that while she analyzes the meaning of the word…[Read more]

Translating a Sanskrit text is a highly challenging task. The difficulty only gets compounded if it is a Vedic text, because the Vedas use a Sanskrit that is quite different from the Sanskrit used in other literature. To translate the Rig Veda into English requires great patience and great scholarship. Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton…[Read more]

Hinduism—aka Sanatana Dharma—is the oldest living religion. Such a long history is bound to have many struggles, adaptations, evolution, misunderstandings, conflicts, resolutions, and traditions. Hinduism in the Modern World is a mirror to all these, and more. While the editor and contributors of this volume do not claim that this work is com…[Read more]

A book designed for children with attractive illustrations, this volume brings out the spirit of India through the recounting of an incident that happened in India; where a boy—not wealthy of resources—returns a wallet he found and cannot even think of accepting a reward for his good act. Awarded the ‘Mom’s Choice Best Educational Picture Book’,…[Read more]

Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata is the outcome of a series of three panels dedicated to the renowned scholar of the Mahābhārata, Alf Hiltebeitel, organized by his favorite disciple, Vishwa Adluri on the occasion of Alf’s seventieth birthday. Per its author “whatever is found here [in the Mahābhārata] may be found elsewhere…[Read more]

Indian philosophy has been often denied the official designation of “philosophy,” and many academics around the world have dismissed it as vague theology, at best. The main reason for such a relegation has been the inaccessibility of the languages in which the source texts were written. This problem was aggravated by the lack of readable Eng…[Read more]

Recovering the Lost Tongue by Rahul Banerjee Book Review Prabuddha Bharata July 2010

Postcolonial Reason and Its Critique Eds Purushottama Billimoria and Dina Al-Kassim Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2014

Pages from the Past Part 1 Rameshwar Tantia Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2016

Management A New Look—Lessons from Sarada Ma’s Life and Teaching by Dr Abani Nath Mukhopadhyay Book Review Prabuddha Bharata September 2014

Man in Search of Immortality Testimonials from the Hindu Scriptures by Swami Nikhilananda Book Review Prabuddha Bharata January 2013

Lectures on Patañjali’s Mahābhāshya Volumes IX and X Kuppuswami Sastry Research Institute Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2014