2017 / Articles
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Defining Hinduism
WHO IS A HINDU? How a quest to define the faith has resulted in a shift of power away from the common man.
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God of Craftsmen
Vishwakarma Puja is located at the cusp between death and rebirth. Makes sense as Vishwakarma is the divine craftsman, patron of all craftsmen.
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Lakshmi means finance, not Finance Minister
When the Vice President recently referred to Lakshmi as Finance Minister, he revealed a popular misunderstanding of Hindu mythology.
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Cinderella Vrat Katha
The stories of the vrata katha are most interesting as they speak of coping with family issues.
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Brahmins who rejected Ram
In the epic, Ram kills Ravana, who is son of a brahmin named Vaishrava, of the Paulatsya clan, descending from Brahma himself.
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Castrated for God
Body mutilation as part of faith stems from the idea that the body, the vehicle of desire, is a fetter (as per Hindu, Buddhist and Jain ascetic traditions) or a sin (as per Christian ascetic traditions).
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The moral consciousness
We live in times where there seems to be a fracture between consciousness and morality. But an expansion of the former leads to a deepening of the latter
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Balancing the Love Charger
Few are able to handle that a good person can do a bad thing too. Just as it is possible for a bad person to do a good thing.
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Middlemen In God’s Market
Published on 11th September, 2017, in Outlook. It is human to try and understand nature and use that knowledge to improve the quality of life. The forager did it. The hunter did it. The fisherman, the herdsman and the farmer…
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Is divorce permitted in Hinduism?
In many cultures, marriage is a contract. Divorce is the breaking of the contract. Some, like the Catholic Church, believe that the contract of marriage is sacred and hence, must never be broken. Others disagree.
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The myth of Cultural Marxism
While Classical, or Material, Marxism is based on tangible wealth (haves and have-nots), Cultural Marxism is based on intangible structures of power (privileged and unprivileged).
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Narayana Murthy: The Bhishma who will not be pinned out of the battlefield so easily
Like all corporate professionals, all answers will be couched in rational technical jargon, with the right dash of morality, which will hide all underlying emotions.
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Decoding Ganesha: it is difficult to reduce him to a signpost of a single idea
Bachelor or polygamous? Ancient god or contemporary Buddhist icon? Ganesha, like Hinduism, refuses to be reduced to a single idea
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Chef Nala
Once upon a time, there was a man who cooked so well that a woman decided to marry him… His name was Nala.
