“I’m backward class, and you?” by Prof. Dipankar Gupta
June 18, 2006 Below is an article by Prof. Dipankar Gupta from the School of Social Sciences at JNU. This is another (sad) example of how the terms caste, jati, varna and class continue...
Category: Hindu Dharma
Expropriation of Hindu Concepts and Traditions…
On Yahoo-groups, a posting on how archetypical Hindu concepts and traditions like “Ayurveda” and “Yoga” are being expropriated by others and consciously (but in a subtle manner) being de-linked from the land and the...
Excerpts from “Search for a Hindu Agenda”
In a recent issue of Organiser, Subramanian Swamy wrote “Search for a Hindu Agenda” Some excerpts from the original article below: *** “A virile Hindu Agenda must have two components: [1] What Hindus should...
Excerpts from “The Dangers of Monotheism…”
In a recently written piece on “The Dangers of Monotheism in the Age of Globalization“, Jean-Pierre Lehmann suggests that India (and our Hindu tradition) can be the new ethical and spiritual role model for...
More on Husain…
I wrote this piece in Feb ’06 but because of work and travel, never got around to finalising it. **************** On BBC World Service this morning (9th Feb ’06), an interview with the 12...
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