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Is wearing a bindi religious?

By hipkapi April 16, 2014 Balagangadhara, basics, theory-ladenness

Depending on the context of the discussion (say a dispute about some aspect of the Indian culture), the disputants can treat wearing the bindi or a saree as facts. However, in another…

Translation, Interpretation and Culture: On the disingenuity of a comparative theology

By hipkapi December 23, 2013 concept(category), published, theory-ladenness, translation

[Published: Canadian Social Science 10(5) 39-47, 2014] Check Balu’s paper on comparative theology, and in particular Francis Clooney’s: Translation, interpretration and culture: on the disingenuity of a comparative theology

Vivekananda and Caste Discrimination: theory-ladenness

By hipkapi March 9, 2011 Balagangadhara, basics, caste, theory-ladenness

1. You ask whether or not it was ‘factual’ that a ‘paraiah’ was not allowed on the same street as a Nair or a Brahmin. The evidence we have says…

‘Facts’ are facts of a theory

By hipkapi March 9, 2011 Balagangadhara, basics, theory-ladenness

1. Until the sixties of the previous century, there was some kind of consensus about the nature of scientific enterprise. One strand within it had to do with the nature…