Halley
Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society; Hindu. Male.
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Some good lines here .. "religion is essentially mystery and sacrifice" “Which religion in antiquity did not lose its moral influence by losing its priests and its sacrifices?”...
Someone asked does the constitution/law have guts to allow for this for other religions just like Muslims. My thoughts: Hindus receive instructions on their religion based on pr...
When the oppression argument fails with evidence like this the goalpost generally shifts. Why aren't all professions equally represented? Why are patels over-represented? + htt...
This came up as a reading reminder on fb. This is Viswanatha Satyanarayana writing on Krishna Deva Raya's Amukta Malyada. + https://t.co/2xntsWFgBt
Decent article. Few excerpts that I agree with on this topic of Marxism and Indigenous peoples. Most Marxists and Socialists I know of don't engage with this topic much. A trait i...
2019 reading memory. Any similarity with another country and the modern manifestation of its majority faith is purely coincidental "Despite its protests to the contrary, modern C...
Haha! This is Wendell Berry writing in 1977 about America. This applies very much to the urban India of my times too! "Thus, the average—one is tempted to say, the ideal—American...
Reading memory. Used to read a lot on the history of advertising back then. On how desires are created. When I read this passage again now it feels like a lot of us have moved on f...
This thing of - " I don't have an ideology. I am neutral. I side with oppressed. Violence is bad" is very juvenile. Violence happens because it is ideologically justified. Based...
Snippet from constituent assembly debates. Saved this years ago. It showed up as a memory today. "Pundit Lakshmi Kantra Maitra: Sir, it is well known that the Hindu Law has the o...
Recollecting the wisdom of Prof.Seyyed Hossein Nasr on the occassion of the World Environment Day. Replug from June 2021 "Why is it necessary to have a religious view of nature f...
Marco Pallis wrote this in 1939 in his "Peaks and Lamas" on Tibetan country. Very relevant to everyone i know of in my own generation and the one right before it. Will remain just...