If Indic culture is to successfully resist the organized assault by Marxism and its ideological offshoots, the resentful politics of group identities and competitive victimhood must end.
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Gainsaying Ancient Indian Science – Part 2
Neo-colonialists find it hard to digest India's ingenuity in mathematics and hence, resort to gross manipulations to further their agenda.
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Gainsaying Ancient Indian Science – Part 1
As the source of many great scientific achievements, Indians are still denied their place in history; especially by homegrown critics.
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Hinduism in a Postmodern World (Part 1)
With the negation of reason, logic and objective truth as its central dogma, postmodernism makes it impossible to have a dialogue with other systems of thought and thus promotes conflict.
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Is Yoga Hindu?
The claim, “Yoga is Hindu”, creates more problems than it solves as it leads us into the blind alley of identity politics.
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Nationalism in Indian thought
It is a popular myth that Nationalism is a concept alien to India and that it was brought to her shores in the imperial age. A reading of traditional Indic literature (Śāstras and Kāvyas) tells a totally different story.
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Looking for Indianness
The essence of what constitutes Indianness is disappearing in the mutating mass of present day society, not helped by the Indians' own cultural bankruptcy, which might pave the way towards a regrettable future.
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The prism of class
Class is a useful lens for understanding caste but it could lead to misleading conclusions that do not account for a plethora of contradictory evidence.
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Did Sri Aurobindo Take the Easy Way Out?
A casual glance at Sri Aurobindo's life would make you believe that in order to avoid the vagaries of life he chose the spiritual path, in reality, it was anything but.