Hinduism

Dhadak

X.T.M calls the film Dhadak, an inter-caste romance, excellent and important, and lists observations: the sympathetic Christian characters, the BJP-like villain father, and the odd fact that inter-caste matches usually…

X.T.M21 July 20189 comments
Kailasha and Soma central to Arya culture?

The author tries to identify Mount Soma and Kailash in the Valmiki Ramayana as central to Arya culture, and reads mythic lineages, such as Ikshvaku’s and Illa’s, as possibly different…

AnAn18 July 20180 comments
Africa’s only Hindu island

Starting from Mauritius as Africa’s only Hindu-majority island, X.T.M speculates on Hindu island diasporas, the role of Brahmin migrants in spreading caste, and an Aryan-versus-AASI model of masculine and mother-goddess…

X.T.M26 June 2018127 comments
The invention of Hinduism 1,000 years ago by a Muslim

Razib Khan criticises the Eurocentrism of postcolonial discourse and offers extracts from the Central Asian polymath Al-Biruni on Indian religion, as one of the earliest extensive outsider accounts of the…

Razib Khan12 June 201879 comments
Matrix Movie Review

A short post saying the Wachowskis drew on the Ramayana, the Gita and Buddhism for The Matrix, with a recommended video commentator.

AnAn30 April 20184 comments
Hinduism,Hindus,BJP/RSS media, academia,politics; Whose fault is it anyway?

The author asks who is to blame for tensions around Hinduism, media and academia, arguing that Western power has fed a sense among some Hindus that everyone is against them,…

Bharata Bharatavanshi22 April 20187 comments
Hindus/buddhists threat perception of christianity and islam.

A short post quoting an analyst’s view that Hindu and Buddhist nationalists see their movements as defensive responses to expansionist, proselytising religions, an aspect the poster says Western coverage misses.

Bharata Bharatavanshi14 April 20185 comments
Freedom leads to freedom, not anything else

A reader-style reply argues that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers such as Ramanuja opposed caste discrimination, and that Islam’s arrival, not Hinduism, explains India’s relative…

Bharata Bharatavanshi11 April 201837 comments
White presenting, women presenting, person defends Dharmic terminology from white people

Razib Khan mocks a tweet in which white-presenting people defend Dharmic terminology, agreeing that Hindu belief is sometimes belittled as ‘mythology’ but arguing such public posturing is more about the…

Razib Khan10 April 201834 comments
Ambedkar, Ramanuja and Hope in Hinduism

A comment-style post arguing that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers could criticise caste, and that the coming of Islam hindered India’s moral development.

Bharata Bharatavanshi5 April 20180 comments