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Indian Philosophy Archive
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On The Need to Revive the Temple Culture
Posted on October 16, 2012 | 56 CommentsHow often have you heard this refrain or its variants: Naah! I don’t go to temples. I don’t like going to temples…I mean, there’s no point…all that noise, meaningless mantras and rituals…some are so unhygienic…I believe in God but I’m spiritual…after all, Hinduism is a... -
Father, Spare us Thy Ignorant Sermon
Posted on February 21, 2012 | 81 CommentsFirst, credit where it is due: sincere thanks to my all-knowing Twitter friends Gopi and Ranganaathan for bringing this to my attention. Preface A certain Father Dominic Emmanuel seems to have taken it upon himself to educate the Honourable Justices of the Bhopal high court... -
Lies, Damned Lies and Meera Nanda
Posted on August 9, 2011 | 167 CommentsMy wait didn’t go in vain. I knew it the moment the world learned that the Norwegian lunatic-killer took inspiration from a vast range of literature critical of Islam, Marxists and their fellow travellers and that literature included writings that emanated from people sympathetic to... -
Manu Joseph’s Open Ignorance
Posted on July 8, 2011 | 180 CommentsFew things pollute the atmosphere worse than a slighted journalist. What’s an even worse pollution than that is a slighted journalist whose writings reek with a stink of suspicious agenda. Meet Manu Joseph: a non-entity until his Open magazine exposed the Radia tapes sleaze last... -
Synthetic Pipedream
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 266 CommentsJust when you think it’s over, there’s always someone new who drums the fossilized jungle beat. I wouldn’t have been this harsh but for the fact that this was said by the generally-sensible Vijay Vikram, who’s doing some commendable work at his new portal in... -
Meera Nanda’s Ignorance Revisited
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 46 CommentsAbout two years ago, writing about how Meera Nanda proudly strutted her ignorance, I observed two things at the outset: Perhaps it takes only a Meera Nanda to have the guts to strut her ignorance with such confidence. It took me a few days to... -
The Indian Conception of History
Posted on January 21, 2011 | 36 CommentsDo Indians have a sense of history? No is pretty much the received wisdom even today in major sections of the academia, media and the rest. If you as much as question the sources, the roots of this received wisdom, you are branded but that’s... -
Deepak Chopra Does it Again!
Posted on December 3, 2010 | 33 CommentsGuess who can beat Deepak Chopra’s record? Only Deepak Chopra. He’s truly nulli secundus. Despite calling his bluff on not one, but two occasions, despite the fact that he hasn’t answered any of my questions, I’m compelled to write again simply because given his reach... -
On the Eve of the Verdict…
Posted on September 24, 2010 | 96 CommentsSo the Ramajanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid verdict has been postponed and it’s time yet again for doing what we’ve been known to do best: push problems as much as you can until they explode as they must. Meanwhile, the attitudes in the secular camp that prevailed in the... -
Guarding the White Masters’ Fortress
Posted on July 29, 2010 | 16 CommentsPankaj Mishra returns to this blog after a longish absence. His column reviews two books (THE SUBTLE BODY: The Story of Yoga in America, Stefanie Syman and THE GREAT OOM The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America, Robert Love) and upon reading it, you have... -
Introducing Prekshaa
Posted on June 17, 2010 | 26 CommentsAn average, devout Hindu knows next to nothing about Hinduism while his Muslim or Christian counterparts know enough to defend their respective faiths. And so the average devout Hindu does one of these two: Feels ashamed and/or scared to admit in public that he is... -
The Hindu Roots of Yoga
Posted on June 3, 2010 | 35 CommentsPreface One of the more unfortunate but widespread phenomena today with regard to Hinduism is that we now need to produce elaborate evidence for things accepted as evident truths just thirty or forty years ago. In other words, writing defenses instead of doing original, constructive...