Halley
Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society; Hindu. Male.
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This is one of the best descriptions of Democracy of our times... Rene Guenon at his best! "It is contradictory to say that the same person can be at the same time ruler and ruled...
Prof.Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of those few thinkers who hits all the right notes on the ecological crisis and it's underlying spiritual crisis +
This book is very good. Got a reading memory reminder today on my facebook feed. From Seyyed Hossein Nasr's "Man and Nature - The spiritual crisis in modern man" Those intereste...
Nupur Sharma BJP controversy is another textbook example of how liberalism operates on/against the Hindu side. +
Wendell Berry reading memory replug. "According to the new norm, the childβs destiny is not to succeed the parents, but to outmode them; succession has given way to supersession"...
Sure a temple of the scale of Braihadeeshwara temple or a majestic idol/vigraha as in Tirumala temple may not have existed in times of Rama and Krishna. May not have existed in so...
When I first read about Macaulay years ago I thought this would be an open and shut case to switch to IKS (Indic knowledge systems) based education system from Macaulay system of E...
This is an important point right here below. Smriti is where the rubber hits the road. By totally ignoring them because we find certain aspects in them problematic we are slowly a...
Coomaraswamy on Unity in diversity. "Those who know India best and can think in the terms of Indian thought, are more impressed by her cultural unity than by her apparent diversit...
This entity called "free individual" is a post-enlightenment era formulation. They never existed before this in any society I know of in this form. America thought it had its pecki...
Sample the resistance of Devadasis here. No one told me of this in school or in university. Devadasis -> Prostitutes . This is what we were told. It is some sort of a intellectua...
This will be a pinned thread to capture some of my video and text based outreach on Dharmic topics in recent past (2020 onwards). Putting this here just for ease of sharing and re...