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There is No Single Hindu Plate: What Bengal’s Durga Puja tells us about Faith and Food
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (524+ words) This is not simply a quarrel about fish or meat. It is about what happens when one particular understanding of religious practice is presented as the universal measure of Hindu devotion. Food is therefore not an incidental part of the…...
Reading the Body, Governing the Eye: Modesty, Gaze and Scripture in the Torah, the New Testament and the Quran
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (483+ words) The Question Behind the Question The Science of Gaze: Is There an Established Sex Difference? Concordance, Discordance and the Limits of Self-Report The Torah and the Dress of the Daughters of Israel The New Testament and the Apparel of Christian…...
Yesterday Through Today’s Eyes: Which Path Served Humanity Better?
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (933+ words) In the life of Rudolf Virchow, one of the towering figures of modern medicine, there lies a small moment that history often overlooks. Yet through today’s eyes, it carries a striking depth. As a young man, Virchow was drawn to…...
Beyond the Battlefield of Belief: Dismantling the Culture of Religious Combat
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (851+ words) The Quranic Ethic of Communication This first movement performs a close reading of a cluster of Quranic verses that, taken together, compose an ordered communicative method rather than a scattered set of injunctions to politeness. Altercation as the Corruption Foucault…...
Reclaiming Harappa: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s Civilisational Imagination of Equality, Ecology and Human Dignity
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (287+ words) Priti Gulati Cox’s remarkable illustrations deepen this experience immeasurably. Her visual interpretations do not merely accompany the text; they animate its emotional and philosophical universe, allowing readers to inhabit the landscapes, faces, animals, and dreams of an ancient civilisation reborn…...
Beyond the War Mongering Civilisational Conflict thesis: A Response to Bill Warner | Countercurrents
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (639+ words) Jihad as Striving and the Law of War Warner’s use of the medieval categories of the abode of Islam and the abode of war omits a third classical category, the abode of covenant or peace, which most contemporary jurists hold…...
Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s Views on the Bhakti Movement and the Upliftment of Dalits
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (657+ words) Ambedkar’s Appreciation of the Bhakti Saints Bhakti as a Spiritual Rather Than Social Revolution Ambedkar therefore insisted that social equality must precede or accompany spiritual equality. Without changes in the structure of society, devotional teachings remain largely symbolic. Failure to…...
Living with Buddha: How ten days of noble silence changed the way I looked at Buddha and myself
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1759+ words) “Some ideas are understood by reading. Others are understood only by experience.” For almost fifty years, I thought I understood Buddha. Like millions of Indians of my generation, I had grown up with the familiar story of Prince Siddhartha. Our…...
Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression as a Path Beyond Tribalism, Ego and Empire
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (573+ words) The Wound of Division Escaping the Tribal Mind Pre-Islamic Arabia organised loyalty around the tribe: a man’s worth was his clan’s worth, and moral concern ran along the boundary of blood. The term for this fierce partisanship is asabiyyah. A…...
From Somnath’s Plunder to ‘Chanda Chori’ in Ayodhya
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (472+ words) The country is currently shocked by the alleged huge heist of wealth, or ‘chanda chori’ (theft of donations), in Ayodhya’s Ram Temple. The “theft” of funds from the temple came as a big blow to the nation, particularly to those…...