Halley
Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society; Hindu. Male.
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Brahmin hate unites multiple schools of thought. Many a times some Brahmins are partners in crime in such endeavours. Specifically in Indian context lot of our university academi...
Apr'22 article. I see chatter on Special Marriage Act vs Hindu Marriage Act. I think that is a poor reading UP govt then understood the issue well. Judgements can go either ways ba...
This old article on E.P.Thompson came up on my feed. I like his works. Although I always saw him more as a historian and less as a Marxist. +
Good article. "the defenders of the civilization-state are saying that the search for universal values is over, that all of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our...
Sharing some lines on the themes of Decolonisation - Artha-Kama-Dharma-Moksha and Science and Technology apropos this conversation. + https://t.co/UKvwt0iGnL
"In fact, secularization was the other side of the rise and growth of nation-states and modern imperialisms which required autonomy (and sovereignty) of state-power and increasing...
"Teachers assume they are smart, hard-working, high-achieving and morally deserving, which can boost the grades of academically mediocre Asian American students" + https://t.co/r3...
Smith makes the important argument that for most of human history people have been religious without needing the notion of religion, and that βthe rise of the concept of βreligionβ...
Some very important lines from this book - K V Rangaswami Iyengar's Raja Dharma (1941) Long thread alert. Full of excerpts. I am not innovating anything here. + https://t.co/JK...
..The homogenous celebration of every culture effectively means no culture at all.. +
Whether what was in practice already has been documented in Sastras or whether Sastras influenced practice can be debated by some. But that sastra influenced practice and that prac...
"The suppression of Buddhist notions of transmigration between human and other life-forms, and its notion that human beings can attain divine Buddhahood, paved the way for the mas...