Dharma
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Browncast: Indic explorer on Hinduism, Dharma, etc
Mukunda and Omar talk with the anonymous Twitter account Indic Explorer about all things Indic, including how to define Hinduism, why it does not get the respect it deserves, and…
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Yugant / युगान्त : Book Review/Recommendation
Nachiketa recommends Irawati Karve’s Yugant, a critical, rational reading of the Mahabharata that weighs its characters’ motivations, from the Pandavas’ marriage to Draupadi to Krishna’s character, with literary respect but…
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The world turned upside down
A short poem imagining people who are told it is the Kali Yuga and rejoice, treating the Dharma and the Dao as lessons in what not to do.
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Indian pluralism and a pluralistic India for a Brighter Future of Humanity
A speaker at Leicester argues that India has always been a coming-together of disparate identities, so being Hindu and Indian means being pluralistic, defining Dharma as a natural order sustained…
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How Indians invented the universal religion
Disagreeing with guest Armin Navabi on a podcast, the author argues that universalist, post-tribal religion was not invented by Christianity and the Abrahamic tradition, pointing to Ashoka’s Edict 13 and…
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Analysing The Election Podcast –
Reflecting on reaction to Browncast Episode 38, the author argues that new Hindu intellectuals reject the Nehruvian secular settlement and want India organised on dharmic principles with a Hindu soul…
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SATYASHRAMA: A CONCEPTION OF DHARMIC POLITICS
A friend’s piece, posted by Zach, proposes ‘Satyashrama’, a dharmic politics built on the Vedic notion of Rta and the individual’s swadharma. The author argues for an economy of social…
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Happy Birthday VL!
A mock-epic birthday tribute to a Brown Pundits colleague, written in the language of Dharma and divine incarnation, in which a long search for harmony ends in a meeting that…
