Monday, April 16, 2012

Romila Thapar on Hinduism

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I received the following post on a Hindu list: "Finally, Romila Thapar admits: 'Fundamental sanity of Indian civilization has been ...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Ramachandra Guha in Leuven, Belgium

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Even in an age where physical meetings are no longer necessary for communication, it remains interesting to see the human face behind the pa...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (4) The new Hindu Right

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Meera Nanda’s main target, the “new Hindu Right”, is introduced as follows: “The new Hindu Right has been honing its radical critique of Isl...
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Hindu-Christian relations: the Kentucky case

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In autumn 2011, Kentucky politics was enlivened by an incident over Governor Steve Beshear’s participation in a Hindu ceremony for the Diwal...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (3) Breivik, India and National-Socialism

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According to Meera Nanda: “India, it turns out, figures quite prominently in this web of hate. So far, the India connection has been limited...

Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (2) Sources of Breivik's terror option

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Dr. Nanda casts the net of guilt for the Oslo slaughter as wide as possible: “Even though Anders Breivik alone pulled the trigger, the massa...

Meera Nanda against Hinduism and its friends: (1) Anders Breivik's faith sister

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When corpses lie about after a massacre, vultures descend to feast on them. After Anders Behring Breivik’s bomb-attack in downtown Oslo and ...
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