In March 2025, Mexico City made a move to ban traditional bullfighting practices that involve harming or killing bulls. Instead, the new law allows only bloodless bullfights, where the animals…
Yantras are intricate geometric designs with distinct origins, purposes, and symbolic meanings used in spiritual practices in dharmic traditions. In Indian traditions, these geometric diagrams are used for meditation, invoking deities,…
Ayurveda, the ancient Indian holistic healing system originating over 5,000 years ago in the Indian subcontinent, is one of the world's oldest systems of medicine. The term comes from the…
The Kumbh Mela is probably one of the world's largest, most ancient spiritual gatherings, deeply rooted in Hindu science and tradition. Kumbh Mela is a religious festival that occurs every…
The Transcendentalists were a group of 19th-century American writers, thinkers, and philosophers who emphasized the importance of individual intuition, spirituality, and the connection between humanity and nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson…
Roles in Society and Caste The dharmasastras are fundamental to Indian culture and civilization. The Brahmanic social ideology, or caturvarnasramadharma ("dharma of four varṇas and four stages of life"), shapes…
Xochimilco is a day trip from the center of Mexico City. Away from bustling city traffic and sounds, one gets instantly immersed in Nature, where the Feminine seems to lead…
Ancient pagan sites in modern-day Turkey, especially Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, are hailed as one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of recent times and have sparked controversy across…
The caste system often gets a beating, mainly for not being understood or for purposefully misinterpreted. Based on cultural understanding, the caste system in its original form was a functional…
Election 2024, Social Capital, and Political Culture Theories The Trump 2024 victory can be examined through the lenses of Robert Putnam's social capital theory and Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba's…
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