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Indian Philosophy Archive
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Dissecting Contextual Morality: Part 3
Posted on June 20, 2008 | 2 CommentsRead Part 1 After observing how AKR leaves us confounded with academic jargon and widely deviating from his original theme, I’ll continue the same examination a tad more. A commenter helpfully added some valuable information about AKR’s corruption of the ullurai concept. The focus is... -
Dissecting Contextual Morality: Part 2
Posted on June 18, 2008 | 3 CommentsI had concluded the previous post with a note on AKR’s understanding of Hindu ethics and traditional expositions on Dharma. He notes that Each addition is really a subtraction from any universal law. There is not much left of an absolute or common (sadharana) dharma... -
Dissecting Contextual Morality : Part 1
Posted on June 16, 2008 | 10 CommentsPreface In an interesting article on Narendra Modi, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan (link courtesy Nitin) concludes that contextual morality is the one magic explanation for all ills that have plagued India for more than 100 years. He says …Narendra Modi is our own creation, of liberals, conservatives,... -
Observations on the Rama Setu Issue
Posted on May 2, 2008 | 5 CommentsA gentleman made an insightful observation on another forum I’m part of. While this observation is not new, it underscores what we all know: post-Independence Hindu society has failed to defend itself adequately. I had to make this post now because the Rama Sethu issue... -
Progenitor of a New Calendar
Posted on April 15, 2008 | 22 CommentsGreat men are known for greater quirks. So it is with Karunanidhi–I leave his greatness to both your imagination and evaluation. A brief background before this. In the Hindu tradition, one of the ways greatness is measured is by suffixing pravartaka (literally, converter, precedent-setter etc).... -
Who Wrote This?
Posted on April 13, 2008 | 14 CommentsThe Mohammadan conquest with its propagandist work and later the Christian missionary movement attempted to shake the stability of Hindu society and in an age deeply conscious of instability, authority naturally became the rock on which alone it seemed that social safety and ethical order... -
On what the Mahabharata Really Says
Posted on March 26, 2008 | 7 CommentsAn article (link courtesy the Acorn) by Nandini Sundar that tries to examine the Maoist menace by drawing guidance from the Mahabharata, gets the Mahabharata portion almost wholly wrong. Tweet -
Freedom to Convert
Posted on March 20, 2008 | 12 CommentsThe elections are over but the secular crowd never seems to tire of slamming Gujarat. This time, a social scientist of sorts holds the baton. He tries to prove that the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003 is dangerous. His bottomline: the Act misunderstands the... -
Ramanujan’s Ramayana
Posted on March 15, 2008 | 73 CommentsThe old suspect, A.K. Ramanujan emerges out of the woodwork on Outlook’s pages. The magazine’s leader to this article says: …in a pocket of the Delhi University, right-wing student activists have taken exception to this essay by the celebrated scholar A.K. Ramanujan, on the many... -
Asymmetry in Words and Practise
Posted on February 3, 2008 | 83 CommentsMany thanks to a reader who brought to my notice M.F. Hussain’s interview with Tehelka. Readers of this blog know my views on Hussain. The interview is interesting because this is the first piece I have read where Hussain gives us a bit of insight... -
Message of Indian Philosophy
Posted on January 20, 2008 | 3 CommentsProfessor M.Hiriyanna is one of the little-known scholar-giants who gifted us new insights, and corrected thriving misperceptions in Indian philosophy. The title of this post is derived from his 1939 Indian Philosophical Congress lecture bearing the same title. His lecture delivers the message of Indian... -
Hindutva and Militant Islam
Posted on January 7, 2008 | 5 CommentsThis is where I wind up my previous post on Hindutva, which I had left unfinished. I pointed to a fundamental error in understanding Hindutva by comparing it to "militant Islam." Tweet