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Topic: Shaivism

Modi announces statues of Chola kings as BJP takes Shaivite route to cracking Tamil Nadu puzzle

On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Tamil Nadu's Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple and participated in the Aadi Thiruvathirai Festival.

Shaivites wiped out Jain influence in medieval Karnataka—200 years before Delhi Sultans

The Republic of India’s understanding of religious policy should not be based only on this or that North Indian Sultan, but on a sober understanding of the dynamics of majority and minority communities throughout time.

Kashmir Shaivism has its own Shastras. ‘It doesn’t accept Upanishads as ultimate truth’

Raj Nehru's new book, ‘I am Shiva’, explores the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism, offering practical pathways toward attaining universal consciousness.

This is how Shiva became Asia’s most popular god – innovation, assimilation, conquest

In a diverse religious environment, the Shaiva recipe for success was rather crafty.

Yogi Adityanath isn’t the first. Shaivite monks have been in politics for 1,000 years

Like their Buddhist and Jain predecessors, medieval Shaivite monasteries used their royal connections to defeat rivals and accumulate followers.

How old is the Gudimallam stone Lingam? Historians debate age of ancient Shiva linga

Located at a small village temple in Andhra Pradesh, this Shiva linga is carved from highly polished, reddish-brown rock and is enclosed in an apsidal sanctum, or garbhagriha.

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No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.