Nikhil Chandwani is an author of 10 Books, TED(x) Speaker, and Founder- Writers' Rescue Centre. He was recently awarded the Rashtriya Gaurav Award in 2019 for excellence in social entrepreneurship.

THE FIRST three ‘adhyayas’ (chapters) of the first ‘mandala’ (book) of the Rig Veda comprising 40 ‘suktas’ (and 489 mantras) have been commented upon by Acharya Madhva in his work ‘Rig Bhashya’.

The unique creation of Sanskrit was an unparalleled oral tradition far surpassing instead of creating any orthographic system. More or less the same time when the Indo-Aryan language started evolving ...

Democracy is a system in which the public elects its ruler himself. The term democracy is derived from two Greek words 'Demos' and Kratos. Demos mean 'people' and Kratos means 'rule'. How this system ...

Yajurveda (700-300 BC) has been dealt with in a treatise called Hindu World where it is described as the second Veda, compiled mainly from Rig-vedic hymns, but showing considerable deviation from the ...

The Vedas comprise a vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry, philosophical dialogue, myth, and ritual incantations developed and composed by Aryans over 3,500 years ago. Regarded by Hindus as the primary ...