Halley
Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society; Hindu. Male.
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I am unable to understand the relevance. I can just state where I see value in the entire Decolonisation/Coloniality and all such discourse. That is my journey ofcourse. Nothing p...
This maxim is called Saindhavodhaka Nyaya. It refers to the classic water cycle. Water from sea transforms as vapour because of sunlight and settles in the clouds only to come bac...
What a phrase! "Obedience to the unenforceable"! It might sound similar in practice to the D word to Hindus. "Just in time, I have received from a friend the phrase "obedience t...
"Once a change has been attributed to progress, especially if the progress is understood as predestined or inevitable, there ceases to be any question of cost. Progress is accounte...
It feels a lot of culture wars on Hindu side are because of the fact that all Hindus aren't unabashedly saying "I am better than my ancestors". +
Whoa! Ananda Coomaraswamy actually said this at Harvard in 1947? Wasn't aware. Haven't come across these exact lines in the past although I have read similar lines from Coomarasw...
On post colonial Liberalism as the best .. superior.. "go to" model for managing multiple diversities, faiths etc. This came up in some twitter banter yesterday. +
Keep the bigotry against religion of a particular kind and disdain for customs aside for a moment. That is a pathological Marxist hatred for religion which is incurable. Our school...
This story about the scholarship of a pandit caught my attention today. Have read or heard such stories of "excellence" in the past as well. Have seen a few scholars like this as w...
"According to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, in his magisterial book on the rise of secularism in the West A Secular Age (2007), there are three ways of thinking about se...
More from Oxford Handbook of Secularism "...regulating religious institutions was only one side of Soviet atheist policy. The other involved propagating what was known as a βscien...
"If [the] Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country. No matter what the Hindus say, Hinduism is a menace to liberty, equality and f...