Criticism: you are a hindutvavaadin!
Consider the following possibility: let us assume that in some of my writings, I reach the same conclusion as some or another ideologue from Hindutva. (Of course, neither Steve Farmer…
Read moreVivekananda and Caste Discrimination: 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…
Read more‘Facts’ are facts of a theory
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…
Read moreIs the Bhagavad Gita a revelation?
Is the Bhagavad Gita revelation? E.g. 15:15, rendered by one translator as “And I am seated in the hearts of all; from Me are memory, knowledge, as well as their…
Read moreReligious tolerance and Ecumenism
1. One has faith in God and, therefore, trusts that His message is also The Truth. That is to say, one should not predicate the attitude of having `faith in’…
Read moreChristological Dilemma
X says that Christological dilemma is some kind of theological logic and suggests that ordinary Christians are not affected by this artificial problematic. There are two issues here worth looking…
Read moreHow did I come up with the theory I did?
What does it matter where they came from and how? Newton did not travel through the Cosmos and visit planets in order to formulate his theories of planetary motion. That…
Read moreParadox of Tolerating Intolerance
Social issues, inherently, are neither paradoxical any more than they are contradictory. It is the formulation of these issues that gives birth to paradoxes, contradictions and such like. (For the…
Read moreChapter-wise Questions and Answers to understand “The Heathen in His Blindness: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion”
Each time I tell someone, whether in a one-to-one discussion or in a conference, “there is no religion in India”, I get the following answer: “Of course, that depends on…
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