News, articles and Essays on ancient Indian Texts
The modern Indian economy is approaching a scale at which neither American aid nor foreign philanthropic funding is remotely large enough to determine its direction. India’s growth is increasingly generated inside India itself through household consumption, infrastructure investment, manufacturing, services, entrepreneurship, digital commerce and an expanding technology ecosystem.
Around the helpless infant stretched an ancient forest filled with prowling beasts, twisting roots and the dark movements of unseen creatures. Yet destiny had not abandoned her.
The development of the new National Curriculum Frameworks involved one of the largest education consultation exercises undertaken in the country. A National Steering Committee adopted a bottom-up approach to gather views from teachers, students, parents, educationists, scholars, subject experts, educational institutions, Anganwadi personnel, neo-literates and non-literates across States and Union Territories.
They were the Eight Vasus, radiant deities associated with the fundamental powers of nature. They moved freely through heaven and earth, untouched by age, disease or sorrow. Their bodies shone with celestial light, and wherever they travelled, the air became fragrant and the sky seemed brighter.
Their weapons no longer blazed with their former brilliance. Their strength weakened, their victories grew uncertain and the celestial gardens seemed dim beneath the gathering power of the Asuras. The immortals who had once ruled the heavens now feared that their enemies would soon seize every realm.
The collaboration has led to the launch of AAERI Verify, a digital credential-verification platform integrated with DigiLocker, India’s flagship Digital Public Infrastructure platform for secure storage and sharing of authenticated documents.
Many Nagas delighted in frightening weaker creatures. They struck without warning, poisoned wells, disturbed hermitages and mocked those who lived by restraint. Their anger was swift, their grudges long and their pride sharpened by the knowledge that even mighty warriors feared their bite.
What follows is more than a duel between two powerful beings. It is a rescue mission, an underwater battle, a test of strength, a contest of arrogance and restraint, and ultimately a struggle over whether cosmic order will be restored.
Eleven Flying Training Organisations have become operational under the Airports Authority of India’s liberalised policy for flight-training institutes. The initiative is intended to increase flying capacity, reduce delays faced by student pilots and help India train a larger share of its future aviation workforce within the country.
That man was Uttanka, a devoted student whose loyalty to his teacher carried him beyond royal palaces, across lonely forests and into the hidden kingdom of the Nagas.
