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However, by 100 AD, the Dharma-shastra uses the term dvija to describe the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas. Kshatriyas controlled land. Vaishyas controlled markets and trade routes. Both were ...

The Bhagavad Gita offers guidance on life's purpose and self-realization through Karma, Dharma, and Moksha. It emphasizes selfless action, adherence to duty, and the pursuit of liberation from the ...

Western media claimed that Donald Trump’s popularity in the US was the creation of fake news. The evidence suggests that it’s this view that’s false. The worst argument of the West that I ...

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. Kiwi rugby convert Joseph Manu is set for a debut in his new code ...

Manu S. Pillai’s new book ... they took a textualist approach to “tradition", as something to be “revived" from Sanskrit books. The British wished to “restore" archaic laws to Hindus.

Driven by dispassionate curiosity, Manu S. Pillai’s latest book captures the complex ways in which religious identities are challenged and refashioned under duress. Through biographical sketches ...

Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, Blue Öyster Cult’s co-founder and front man who wrote “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” for their 1976 album, Agents of Fortune, has managed to maintain a healthy ...

KOCHI: Amid an ideological battle, author Manu S Pillai steps back centuries to trace the formation of the modern Hindu identity in his new book Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of The Modern ...

Paul Hudson’s Outsider Pictures has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Venezuela’s 2024 International Feature Oscar submission “The Shadow of the Sun” by director Miguel Angel Ferrer.

Unfortunately, Manu suffered a torn ACL this year in October after he was putting together another incredible season by leading the Wildcats with 47 tackles at the time. There's a chance he ...