Sanatana Dharma - Aka Hinduism (2nd Bin)

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prekShA – the title of our blog is a Samskrit word that can be derived as prakRShTatayA IkShaNam (प्रकृष्टतया ईक्षणम्) that means “seeing clearly”. In addition to this meaning - “clear vision” - prekShA also means intellect, consideration or reflection - an apt name chosen for our group blog.



We are a group of individuals from Bangalore, India brought together by our interest in Indian culture and tradition. Our primary source of knowledge and guidance in this matter has been our teacher, mentor and well-wisher – Dr. ShatAvadhAni R. Ganesh who inspired us to disseminate our streams of thought, ancient in origin though they may be, via the modern conduit of the Internet.



At the outset, we would like to enumerate some of the objectives of our effort.



We would like for this blog to be a source of original and reliable articles on Indian Culture predominantly in the English language. But having been brought up in Karnataka, we would like to have a few posts in Kannada also. And, since Samskrit has served as a wonderful vehicle of Indian thought, a few posts will be in the devabhAShA as well.



The articles themselves will be broadly on Indian culture. Some tentative topics might give you an idea of what we have in mind -



· Articles on Samskrit (and thereby Indian) poetics or alaMkAra-shAstra;



· Biographies of illustrious personages that contributed to Indian Culture – that are not available on the WWW.



· Lesser known Samskrit and Kannada poets



· Darshana-shAstra



· Showcase creative writing in the classical style in both Kannada and Samskrit



· Travelogues of excursions to places renowned in ancient India



· ……….



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