Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Smoke and mirrors

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  The Hindutva claim that the collective resources of the nation are being unjustifiably appropriated by Muslims because of their growing nu...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The framework for a dysfunctional world

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  The revolutionary changes that are impacting humankind with such bewildering ferocity are mind-boggling, to say the least. Surely there mu...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Science vs religion-I

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  In Tao of Physics, Fritzof Capra wrote that science does not need religion and religion does not need science, while a man needs both. I a...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

How far can dharmic principles sustain India as a Hindu rashtra?

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  If India is to be a ‘Hindu nation’ the only course would arguably be to take advantage of the fact that there is little agreement among Hi...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Faith, belief and worship

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  Every religion is a system of faith, belief and worship in a higher power or god who is deemed to be the creator of the universe. Scriptur...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Is religious conversion a criminal issue?

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  T he Church is against any form of incentivised conversions. Even in the case of inter-religious marriages registered under the Special Ma...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Celebrating the ‘essence of Hinduism’: How 19th century Brahmo Samaj altered Bengali society

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  Amit Das recollects a little anecdote from his grandmother’s life. “If she ever saw any of us praying to an idol before going to school, s...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Weaponising faith: The Gyanvapi Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath dispute

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  There was something incongruous about the moment when I read the news on April 8 that the district court in Varanasi had directed the Arch...