The Crisis of Governance: What India can learn from America
Posted on Jun 15 2008We have been busy learning many a thing in adopting a Western lifestyle—among these consumeris
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From Sulekha to Rupa: Invading the Sacred
Posted on Jul 20 2007Rupa has published a major book that includes mamy Sulekha Columnists. This blog introduces Sulekha readers to this book.
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Quota Land, Part II
Posted on May 23 2006The Department of Social Division in the country of Ladnam is finding new ways to divide society. Their latest? Quotas for different siblings of the same family and for television coverage.
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The Land of Equality, Part I
Posted on Apr 28 2006How does one engineer a society with absolute equality? Read about travel to a country, the Republic of Ladnam that tries to solve this problem.
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The Conversion War and Religious Freedom
Posted on Dec 2 2005Since the right to “change” and to “propagate” religion is given to all individuals it is assumed to be universal, fair and neutral. We argue in this essay that there are at least two distinct viewpoints that come from different types of religious tr
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The Post and Manufacturing Consent
Posted on May 4 2004The central issue of these various articles has been the nature and contents of existing academic scholarship on Hinduism. The consistent and recurring demand has been for the academic community studying Hinduism to engage with and respond to the viewpoints and challenges posed by well-informed, practicing members of the Hindu community. This point of view shall hereafter be referred to as that of the
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Are Indians corrupt?
Posted on Mar 5 2004It cannot be denied that the average citizen encounters more petty corruption in India than in the United States. If this corruption is a factor of relative moral character, then this must imply that Americans possess a higher moral character than Indians, which results in the United States having a lower degree of corruption than India. Examining data like the Corruption Perception Index published by Transparency International
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Courtright Twist And Academic Freedom
Posted on Dec 20 2003Unlike with Christianity, Judaism and even Buddhism in North America, there is no more mainstream counterbalance to the more radical approaches taken by scholars to Hinduism. Christians of a more traditional or mainstream inclination have many seminaries and publishing houses to train scholars and publish books. For every...
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Why India Is A Nation
Posted on Oct 9 2003This urban myth is not accidental. It was deliberately taught in the British established system of education. John Strachey, writing in `India: Its Administration and Progress' in 1888, said “This is the first and most essential thing to remember about India – that
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The English Class System
Posted on Apr 22 2003In this essay we examine data that leads us to conclude that many, if not all of the preceding assumptions are faulty, and directly result from our colonial education. In particular we seek to distinguish in this essay between the learning of English as a language for communication versus the use of English as a primary medium of instruction and a symbol for societal rank in a colonial society.
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Need I belong to only one religion?
Posted on Feb 14 2003So how did 'Hindu' become a religious designation? It was in the encounter with the adherents of two major proselytizing Abrahamic religions -- first Islam and then Christianity that the idea of 'Hinduism' successively took shape in the form of an Abrahamic religion. The question of religious identity was first posed to the dharmic community in its encounter with Islam
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February 14: Happy Kalpana Divas!
Posted on Feb 16 2004But a pagan am I, and love cometh easy to me. My pagan ancestors celebrated this day, our day of dance and celebration and spring, before the loving Church came and showed us ours sinful ways. Their god was a loving god, and he would roast us in his loving hell – the Church could only help. But try as it might, for it was a mighty Church, we poor pagans would scarcely
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The Speech Musharraf Won't Make
Posted on Jul 18 2002As I extend a hand of true friendship to India, I wish for a different future for our children than what we have together given them for the last fifty years. Together, we can curtail the violence that affects our societies. Let us stop teaching our children hatred towards one another. A nation living on hate is a nation that is sick. We need to heal ourselves
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Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
Posted on Mar 11 2002According to a report in the Pakistani daily The News International (Jang) on Feb 2, 2002, the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl was likely related to the fear that his reporting would expose the failure of the Pakistani government to clamp down on groups like Jaish-i-Mohammad
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