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Utterly shameful and inexcusable…

Some of you must have already come across this piece of news mentioning how Dalits were barred from entering the Jagannath Temple in Kendrapara which led to their subsequent conversion to Buddhism. The issue...

The “Talibanisation” of Pakistan…

…is now a REAL possibility. Close on the heels of mention in my last post about the Pakistani moral police, I came across this piece of news in today’s newspapers: “Pakistan minister earns clergy’s...

Sirpur: A forgotten medieval cosmopolis

A report on how archeological research is changing some of our fundamental ideas and mis-conceptions about the history and prosperity of medieval Bharat: From Finding Sirpur, by Chitra Ramaswamy, some excerpts: “…Standing on the...

After Christian Yoga, Islamic Yoga*…

…just kidding. On a more serious note, in Hindu Voice UK, Anish Shah recently wrote about the trend to ignore (or de-link) Hindu traditions from their origins and pretend that these were really secular...

The last word on “Water”

This is by a long shot one of the best critiques that I have come across of “Water”. It is balanced and makes all the points in a crisp, logical way Please read and...