Need Help: A Question on Daughters, Hinduism, Gender and Religion
Long-time readers of my blog would remember a post I had carried on in 2009 – in response to a query from an eager student of Hinduism on why higher caste, saintly people and...
Category: Distortions, Misrepresentation about Hinduism
On Yoga, Tantra & Distortion of Ancient Indian Traditions..
At least some of you must have read an extraordinary piece in the New York Times earlier this week provocatively titled, Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here. In that piece, William Broad made...
On Cow Slaughter etc..
This post has been some time in coming – and I am penning my thoughts on something controversial after a long time. It was prompted by the recent decision of government of MP to...
Max Mueller & Correcting History: One Step at a Time
I read this interview of Dr Prodosh Aich a few months back but did not post it as I wanted to get my hands on his book. “Lies on Long Legs” is a painstakingly...
Dharma-Himsa Paramo Dharma..
Excerpts from an essay by Swami Chinmayananda on non-violence and righteous violence titled, DHARMA HIMSA TATHAIVA CA (emphasis added): Personally, I am no advocate of violence. But violence, too, has its rightful place in...
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