Koenraad Elst

Monday, December 28, 2020

What the West’s academy has to say on Ayodhya

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    What the West’s academy has to say on Ayodhya ( Pragyata , 24 December 2020)   At this year’s digital version of the American ...

Ram Swarup and Hinduphobia

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    Ram Swarup and Hinduphobia     (Bharat-Bharati, 26 Dec. 2020: bharatbharati.in/2020/12/27/ram-swarup-and-hinduphobia)     ...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

The real Uttarayana

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    The real Uttarayana ( Pragyata , 20 December 2020) As the Winter Solstice approaches, this year on 21 December at 10h3 Greenwich M...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Iconoclasm in Kerala too

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  Iconoclasm in Kerala too   ( MyIndMyGlory , 25 Aug. 2020)   In 1990, the late Sita Ram Goel, historian-publisher from Delhi, in hi...
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Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
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