Halley
Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society; Hindu. Male.
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"respects and propounds Atheism like Hinduism does. Isn't that glorious".. Even someone who reads graduate course level Hindu philosophy book on Darshanas will know how much "resp...
When Ananda Coomaraswamy was asked βWhat is your message to the new India of our dreams?β his answer was βBe yourselfβ And elsewhere he clarifies what being yourself means. +
I first got to know of John Ruskin years ago from Gandhiji's early writing. Many have cancelled him long ago. I continue to admire his writing. Wise man. "When men are rightly oc...
Doesn't take a genius to figure this out. What pluralism and multiculturalism did secular India specifically nurture? Secularism is only succesful in destroying diversity bit by b...
Whatever "awe" outsiders have today for India is still for cultural vestiges from our pre-colonial past. No outsider is awed by our malls and metro trains. + https://t.co/Pj1CsPg...
Old reading memory. Hindus should introspect. "We might also point out that a society under the banner of Money, such as the Anglo-American commercial society, or under the banner...
If Brahminical hegemony wanted to annihilate or digest these so called non-Brahiminical performing arts it would've happened centuries ago. There is zero evidence for that urge....
This is a popular trope on tagging Bhiksha to one caste -Brahmins. Very unfortunate. Shows how much disconnected we are as Hindus of our own past. + https://t.co/wGlS0563fR
Got a reading reminder of something I read few years ago. This topic bothers me a lot - Consumptionism. What bothers me is that people conflate this with GDP and say - Consume...
"Nationalism is a religion now common to the great majority of mankind. But this is not to say that older religions have been obliterated by nationalism. Buddhism and Hinduism stil...
Few thoughts on this piece by Shepherd gaaru. Won't link. Those really keen can Google. He tries to draw a wedge between Brahmins as a representative of civilization of the book...
The diversity of practices within Hinduism is grossly misinterpreted these days to assume we are a "anything goes" religion. Dharma as understood by our ancestors is based on Sru...