1. What Hindu scholarship should aim at is not an accomplishment of Hindu modernity, but contemporisation of Hindu worldview and way of living anchored in its inherent continuity.
2. The issue with modernity is not just that it is essentially a western notion having origins in enlightenment period and industrial revolution, but in more fundamental sense, the very notion of 'modern' implies something new, something which is a breakaway from the past, +
3.+something which is forward moving and linear in progress. These principles are fundamentally incompatible with Sanatana Dharma that embodies the notion of continuity, eternity, and cyclical notion of world order which is substructure on the eternal unchanging reality, Brahman.
4. It is for this reason Hindu modernity is a misnomer, Hindu and modernity are essentially incompatible with each other. Simply adding the name Hindu to modern day socio-political-cultural-religious thoughts and practices will not make them Hindu.
5. To make something Hindu in a true sense one must engage with modernity from standpoint of Hindu worldview informed by Hindu epistemology, ontology, ethics and metaphysics.
6. Such an engagement will involve, not copy pasting, but serious analysis and critique resulting in absorption of what is compatible and discarding of what isn't compatible. This is what I would call contemporisation of Hinduism by anchoring it in continuity.
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