Watch this episode featuring essential conversations on culture and civilization.

Time and again the debate on language that erupts on social media descends into a petty political and utilitarian narrative. The conversation on language must move towards culture. The regional...

The kathā pravacana tradition in the Hindu civilization has had such deep roots that when post independence, children’s magazines started getting published, their stories drew from our paurāṇika...

Watch this episode featuring essential conversations on culture and civilization.

Watch this episode featuring essential conversations on culture and civilization.

Watch this episode featuring essential conversations on culture and civilization.

Mahadevi Verma is one of the pillars of modern Hindi literature. Her work is known for its Saṃskṛita-niṣṭha Hindi, and metaphors that carry the graceful beauty of the folk traditions of our land....

The influence of a foreign rule often corrupts the meaning of rituals and traditions of the native land. In the backdrop of Gaudaan, written by Munshi Premchand, watch Shri Pankaj Saxena explain...

In literatures across the world, satire has been used as a tool, when nothing else can express a limitless moral and social degradation and excesses of power and corruption. In Raag Darbari,...

The genre of short story does not have the luxury of space and time that a novel has. In this new episode of Svarnanjali, Pankaj Saxena & Nivedita Tiwari analyze the importance of this genre...

The line dividing Dharma and Adharma can be extremely fine. A sūkṣma dṛṣṭi is required to know the difference. Śrī Rāma’s pursuit of Dharma is unwavering. It is Śrī Rāma Cetanā that has always...

What is Śatrubodha and what has its lack taught us? As history is witness, our lack of awareness of the ‘other’(śatrubodha) is not recent and has been one of the primary reasons for the Islamic...

Watch this episode featuring essential conversations on culture and civilization.

In the next episode of Svarṇāñjali, join Pankaj Saxena and Nivedita Tiwari as they delve deeper into the remarkable life of Śrī Gosvāmī Tulasīdās Ji. The contribution of Gosvāmī Tulasīdās in...

Śrī Rāma’s story has been told many times and in many forms in this land. In this episode of Svarṇāñjali Pankaj Saxena and Nivedita Tiwari discuss devotion for Śrī Rāma and its influence on the...

What is the idea ‘danda’ or punishment in Dharma? How does a penal code with Dharma in its core and as its code, have the ability to speak to the conscience of a person and help in a transformation...

Panchavati, an extremely important book by Banwari ji, is a treatise on the Indian approach to the environment. How everything and every place is sacred for a Hindu, who looks upon the world as one...

The central debate of our times that dictates everything else is between the Abrahamic and Enlightenment driven 'one-life metaphysics' vs the Hindu metaphysics of 'sacred eternal'. Nirmal Verma’s...

For Hindus, the act of creating ponds is Dharma. For us, water conservation itself is Dharma. Ours is a culture which preserves Nature through human rituals. Watch Pankaj Saxena in conversation...

We all remember the TV serial 'Mrignayanee'. It was based on a famous historical novel 'Mriganayani', by Vrindavan Lal Verma. In this episode of Svarṇāñjali - 'Mrignayani', Pankaj Saxena and...

What is the place of art in our lives? How does it inspire us, and in turn how does the artist get inspired? What goes on in an artist’s heart and mind? What is the goal of a Hindu artist and how...

Why is the worship of Śakti important for a Hindu? Pankaj Saxena in conversation with Nivedita Tiwari crystallizes how a Hindu storyteller retells our itihāsa, making it relevant for the...

Here is the first episode of Svarṇāñjali! In this introductory episode we talk about Sauṇdaryabodha, the concept of Nāgarika, and the importance of Sanskṛta in our regional languages. We discuss...

स्वर्णांजलि के चार लक्ष्य हैं: रस निष्पत्ति, संस्कृतगम्य हिंदी की पुनर्स्थापना, हिंदी साहित्य और भारतीय कला को हिन्दू दृष्टि से देखना, और कला के माध्यम से जीवन में सौंदर्य और ज्ञान की दृष्टि का उदय...

When does political consciousness turn into civilizational awakening? This civilizational moment arrives when ideas use art to transform into Saundaryabodha that we can all share. Svarṇāñjali is...

We promised to bring something completely refreshing in Kṣetrīya Bhāṣā, beginning with Saṃskṛta-niṣṭha Hindī; we promised a lens to look at life through regional literature infused with Sanātana...