On Husain, Khajuraho and moral policing
I wrote a follow-up comment on Jo’s blog following my earlier comment� which I feel is worth reproducing in full here: Jo, First a clarification (which I think is very important): I am all...
Category: Hindu Dharma
‘Periyar was against Brahminism, not Brahmins’ (excerpts)
If you missed this article in yesterday’s rediff, I think it is worth a read: “‘Periyar was against Brahminism, not Brahmins’” It makes the important and useful distinction and opens the way for reconciliation...
Comment on “Religion Without Truth”
In an interesting essay in the New York Times*, Stanley Fish, Professor of Law at Florida International University, discusses whether religion (and specifically Bible) can ever be taught without taking into account the “truth”...
Misconceptions about Hinduism continue…
I recently came across a post titled “The Real Problem is not Islam” on this blog to which I added the comment posted below. The reason for posting my comment here is to highlight...
Hinduism – NOT “monotheism in disguise”
A few weeks ago, I came across a provocative comment by Richard Dawkins which mentioned that polytheism in Hinduism is essentially “monotheism in disguise”. The comment prompted this post “Is Hinduism Monotheism in Disguise?”...
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