2019 is India's Deng Xiaoping moment

'The return of India to its own civilisational values can never endanger freedoms as pluralism is the bedrock of our culture,' assert Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale......

The lost and now 'found' Saraswati river

This Haryana village believes it has 'found' the Saraswati river of the Vedas.Manavi Kapur reports.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "You are only just finding out. Our ancestors have known......

'Dharmashastras are the most vocal defenders of caste'

'Hindus are proud of what the Dharmashastras symbolise, but they don't want to do any work to preserve it!,' Sanskrit scholar Donald Davis tells Kanika Dutta.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Social reformer Pandurang Shastri Athavale dead

Well-known social reformer and Magsaysay awardee Pandurang Shastri Athavale passed away in Mumbai on Saturday, family sources said. He was 83.A scholar, he was familiar with the Vedas, the......