Part 1 – Poetry and Literature In a world bred and brought up on a deeply Eurocentric worldview, any claim of Hindu thought influencing Western culture seems like a chauvinistic boast. Yet a closer examination would show this to be an indisputable fact. Indeed, there have been numerous pioneers who used art as the medium…

Cosmic Dance of the “Sanatana” versus “Modernity” As Hindus living in the United States of America, we have the unique privilege of living simultaneously in two different paradigms, consciously or not. The American or Western paradigm more generally can be called ‘progressivism’, where every generation is continually standing on the shoulders of the previous one,…

Background In many American schools, the teaching curricula on Hinduism are built around an obsolete framework called the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory (AIMT). This theory postulates that a group of cattle herders from Central Asia, called Aryans, settled in India around 1,500 BCE. This group of cattle herders, the theory suggests, were successful in imposing their…