Q&A: The Encyclopedia of Hinduism

This article was published in India Real Time (The Wall Street Journal), here.

“Hinduism is famous for being a religion full of concepts that are difficult to pin down, largely because the religion doesn’t have a single authoritative text but many different scriptures and streams of belief.

That may be why it took a collection of Hindu scholars and spiritual leaders a quarter-century to create a new illustrated encyclopedia of Hinduism. The encyclopedia was a project of the India Heritage Research Foundation, a nonprofit founded by an Indian spiritual leader who is based in the northern Indian town of Rishikesh…”