Category: Sanatana Dharma

Must we separate religion from politics?

This post was inspired by Hrishi and Dnyanesh’s comments�which I am reproducing below. The point raised by Hrishi was (essentially) that democracy and politics (of the modern kind) is incompatible with religion… *** Comment...

Thou shalt go out and convert

From an article in UK’s Daily Mail today: The Church of England was accused by one of its most senior bishops yesterday of failing in its duty to convert British Muslims to Christianity. …The...

Source of “Satyameva Jayate”

In the middle of some idle web-surfing a few days ago, I hit upon the source of “Satyameva Jayate” From Nila-Kantha-Chandra’s blog: “…as I was rapidly scanning the Sanskrit verses of the Mundaka, I...

Hinduism as a secular concept

Here is a question for all readers: Why is a “Hindu nation” automatically assumed to be a “fundamentalist, fascist state led by Hindutva fanatics”? My hypothesis is: A Hindu state can�be the ultimate secular...