As an independent nation-state, India still needs to heed Sri Aurobindo's advice to truly be free.
Month: August 2020
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Palani – A grand pilgrimage to Murugan’s abode(Part 1)
As one of the most sacred sites dedicated to Murugan, thousands visit Palani and worship the commander of the army of devas.
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On the meaning of the Mahabharata – Early Rebuttal to German Indology (Part 1)
A book that gives us a whole new understanding of the depths of the Mahabharata.
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The Place of Mahatma Gandhi
Introduction The language of British and Christian imperialism had stood fully exposed for what they were in essence by the time the Swadeshi Movement swept forward after the Partition of Bengal in 1905. The language of Islamic imperialism had revived but was not resounding enough as yet to ring bells in the minds of national...
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The Eternal Dasas of Sree Padmanabha Swamy – I
The dasas of Sree Padmanabha have for millenia been in service of their master.
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Is the Hindutva movement casteist? – Part 2
The need to forecefit Hindutva into an ideological box has made criticism of it weak
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Down with Birthdays!
Birthdays may be celebrated but not necessarily at the expense of tradition. Now that the grand Bhumi-pujan at Ayodhya is behind us, perhaps it can be stated without dampening the spirit of celebration that the choice of the date was an avoidable controversy.
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Caste and the discourse of Casteism
Shudras in pre-colonial India were totally different from how they are seen in the popular imagination of modern India leading to a perverted discourse that looks for solutions to the problems of the marginalised sections of society in the vague past instead of the concrete present.
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5th August 2020 – A Day of Independence From Fear
The Ayodhya Temple marks a day of independence from the shackles that have bound Hindus for far too long.
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The Bodh Gaya temple controversy
The Ambedkarite neo-Buddhists hatred towards Hinduism led to a movement for the “liberation of the Mahabodhi shrine”.