Category: Hindu Social System

This, not reservations, is the answer…

…to upliftment and betterment of Dalits, backwards and Muslims… From the Time of India, 7th Dec ’06 (article by Subodh Ghildiyal): “Tectonic shift: Dalits find new vistas in private sector” Excerpts: “NEW DELHI: Jhumur Das...

Poverty doesn’t come in “quotas”

I have not yet been through the Sachar report and various comments and articles on it but one thing is clear…poverty doesn’t come in quotas… Do our politicians get it? Of course they do…then...

“Water” and Distorted Perceptions about Hinduism…

A letter written by Vrndavan Parker to the “Seattle Weekly” “regarding their review of (Deepa) Mehta’s Hindu-Bashing hate film ‘Water.’” In the preface to the post on Yahoo-Groups, Vrndavan said that there was a...

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...