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How Brahmins helped create temple-states and kingdoms in South India and Southeast Asia
It is fashionable nowadays to use the word ‘Brahmin’ with contempt … But this outrage (real and imagined) must not blind us to the contribution of Brahmins …
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Listening to the Buddha’s hands
In the early days of Buddhism, Buddha was represented by a symbol: a footprint or a wheel or a pot or a tree…
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A Hinduism before Bhakti
A thousand years ago, India was very different from what it is today. North India had yet to face significant conquest by Muslim warlords from Central Asia…
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Did arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand years ago destroy Hindu culture?
Published on 31st May, 2017, on www.dailyo.in . The arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand …
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Is Hinduism the same as Hindutva?
A crude, but useful way to understand the relationship between Hinduism and Hindutva is to study Hindu history…
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China’s Buddhist Goddess
In China, a female Bodhisattva, Guanyin, came into being. This is her story…
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Do Hindus lose their caste when they travel abroad?
If you value caste, then this thought can be depressing, even terrifying. If you are indifferent, it will not matter…
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Was Harappan civilisation Vedic, or Hindu?
This is an extremely tough question to answer as it depends on what you consider Harappan, Hindu and Vedic…
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When Saraswati met Indus
Decoding the correlation between the hymns of the Rig Veda and the artefacts of the Indus Valley civilisation…
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Transgenders versus homosexuals
In Greek mythology, there are many stories of homosexual love: where men love men, and women love women. Apollo falls in love with Hyacinthus, while his sister Artemis drives Callisto away when she lets a man make her pregnant…
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They Held Many Shields
Ancient Buddhist traditions tolerated transgenders; many Hindu traditions still have them linked with deities. A fluid sexuality was a way of life for Indic culture…
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Leveraging the Aryans
The theories of how the ‘Aryan race’ is leveraged to explain various social phenomena…
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The everlasting flame
The agiary is off limits to non-Parsis, but the basis of the exclusion may be common to the Vedas and the Avesta…
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14 things historians taught me
The best thing they passed on is that no knowledge is fixed and finite…
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Submit to Regenerate
Kalki brings in new ideas that force old ideas to adapt to shifting reality…
