1. I was invited by some Sadhus from Swami Narayan Temple (BAPS) to visit the temple and have a discussion with them. Because they practice very strict Brahmacharya (eight types…
Read moreIdeas have impact on people. Theological dilemmas have impact on those who formulate such dilemmas and on the future generations. They undertake actions (of whatever type) to solve these dilemmas,…
Read moreQuestion: why religion spreads among (some) human beings? What is it about them that enables the transmission of religion? This issue allows multiple answers. In this post, I would like…
Read moreWe have developed partial explanations of why the secularism debate in India takes such peculiar forms and why otherwise intelligent people talk nonsense here. But we don’t do so by…
Read moreI want to go deeper into the claim of my earlier post that Shabnum Tejanis and Neera Chandhokes of this world do not think but merely talk. In other words,…
Read moreWe do not have any clear explanation of the nature and rise of American identity politics as yet. But here are a few speculative intuitions: 1. Identity politics seems to…
Read moreContrast sets have multiple functions depending on the contexts in which they are used. For instance, in the case of theories about some phenomena, they can be used to test…
Read moreX says: “Modern prostitution is a very specific institution with the features of pimps, forced sex, kidnapped women, drug addicted women, immigrants lured to foreign shores on false pretences, and…
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