What is critique?
There is a very interesting notion of “critique”: it begins with Kant and stretches through Marx in the German philosophical tradition. In fact, it is most developed in Marx when he says…
Read moreIs Jesus a mystic?
You claim that Jesus of Nazareth is a mystic. From the conversations so far, I presume that this is both your gut-feeling and conviction. The one deriving from your own mystical experience…
Read moreThe loss of the vibrancy of Indian Traditions
I would like to address a very basic issue that many of us have confronted. In its simplest form, the question is this: What should we, a small slice of the…
Read moreTheology of Tolerance
According to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, ‘Hinduism’ is devil’s worship. Instead of quoting from their scriptures, let me give the barest of the bare outlines of their fundamental story about…
Read moreReligious Intolerance and Believers
There are two distinct problems: one involving religions (like Christianity, Judaism and Islam) and the other involving the believers. Regarding these three religions: (a) insofar as these religions (Judaism, Christianity…
Read moreDevil worship in ‘Hinduism’
Here goes: that ‘Hindu’ religion is devil’s worship is central, crucial and vital to the religions that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are. ‘Why is that?’, you may ask. It is…
Read moreBelief vs Faith
(a) It appears to me that in these discussions, a very vital issue (if we want to talk about Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and their ‘problems’ with ‘Hinduism’, etc) is…
Read moreVacuity of Intellectual Svaraj
In so far as one sees this article as a beginning of a certain type of enquiry, it is excellent. However, it is not adequate as a formulation of either…
Read moreWestology and its nonsense
What is the logic of my argument? Am I proposing a ‘westology’? Let me briefly explicate my stances, beginning with the last question. 1. If we are not to simply…
Read moreWhy study the Western culture?
Two substantial questions have been raised in response to what I wrote: (a) why do we need to study and understand the Western culture in order to access our own…
Read more