The Dharma Dispatch

A brief introduction to the Devala-Smriti, a very ancient Dharmasastra treatise. In the 10th century, a chapter titled Mlēccita-Śud'dhih was added to it, dealing with the reconversion of Hindus back t ...

Adikavi, Maharshi Valmiki provided the first great model for composing poetry imbued with all the nine Rasas. He authored the Ramayana at a time when the formal academic discipline of aesthetics was n ...

What we now call as “Dharmic education” was the natural state of our social and cultural life even 60-70 years ago. The very fact that we’re now using Dharmic as an adjective only shows the severity o ...

This is a heartwarming and evocative profile of Swami Mahadeva Sastri, an Avadhoota in Bangalore hailing from the pre-Independence era.