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Western Universalism
How India and Bharat represent two competing visions for the nation
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William Shakespeare’s line—What’s in a name? A rose will smell as sweet by any other name—begs the question. What if flowers did not smell...
Saraswati Puja is not Bengal’s “Valentine’s Day”, stop this cultural erasure and derogatory ‘celebrations’ using sanitary napkins!
Saraswati Puja was celebrated with great grandeur in West Bengal on February 5; the Panchami of the goddess of wisdom was observed in Bihar,...
Veteran diplomat questions nationalist credentials of ‘leading’ think-tank ORF
The crippling unoriginality and mental colonization in large swathes of Bharat's strategic thinking community has become exceedingly clear over the past few years. It...
Dangers of unquestioning use of Western conceptual schemes and theories in African studies
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In 1997, a problem was named: "Western conceptual schemes and theories have become so widespread that almost all scholarship, even by Africans, utilizes them...
Bharat as a Civilizational State: An idea whose time has come?
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Over the last few years, the idea of the civilizational state has been gaining ground globally, more so with the entry of China as...
Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world
Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in cases dating back as long as 11 days, indicating that it...
Developed nations’ colonial mindset impeding Bharat’s development, judiciary must honor ‘separation of power’: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at the colonial mindset of developed nations which is attempting to restrict developing nations like Bharat...
Are all Native Americans and other indigenous communities in the West, allies of Hindus?
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How sad and grossly intellectually negligent for one who speaks for indigenous culture. Shall I call Native American spiritual practices and beliefs of which...
Temples are not a place for virtue signaling
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I am afraid this is a misinterpretation of Panchayatana Puja on the lines of 'intra-pagan multi-culturalism'. The Temple is not a place for virtue-signaling.
https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1454711957391478784
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“Missionaries humiliate traditional practices, by saying their dances and beliefs are things of the devil”: Brazilian anthropologist
Indigenous communities all over the world are threatened by the scourge of Christian missionaries. These missionary supremacists who are massively funded by the USA-led...