Is humility a virtue?
[For how secularization of Christianity has sold us humility as a virtue, check Balu’s paper, esp point 4.] First: there is nothing morally wrong in posting an opinion. My problem…
Read moreCoherence vs Consistenty
You say: “As far as I know, “doxastic coherence” means consistency in beliefs and that is all that is of relevance here.” It is not. Doxastic coherence is coherence between beliefs considered as…
Read moreIs Sat explainable?
[Note: sat, सत् = Real ] No, I cannot explain the real; nor has anybody else in the world. Even more radically: the Real can never be ‘explained’, nor will…
Read moreAssumptions, Warrants, Hypotheses and Heuristics
You say: “there seems to be an underlying assumption that all participants in the thread seem to be making. The assumption being that all these texts have the same end goal in…
Read moreNirvana Shatkam
If you want to use Nirvana Shatkam, it might be more productive to choose translations which do the job that the text can. Because of that, a ‘faithful’ translation of…
Read moreTranslating vibhaktis
The problem is more complicated and the implications far more massive than either of us can even dream of. In fact, I think we are not even aware of the…
Read moreWhich intolerance is growing in India?
[Published on dailyo.in Nov 27, 2015] Increasingly loud voices are to be heard from different capital cities in India about growing intolerance in Indian society. The western press picks up…
Read moreSmriti Irani will destroy Indian education for good
[Published on dailyo.in Nov 19, 2015] Our recent piece on the valedictory speech of the minister of HRD at a Kolkata workshop elicited many replies from the readers. Some found that…
Read moreWhy Smriti Irani as HRD minister was a terrible choice
[Published on Nov 13, 2015 dailyo.in] From the mouth of some babes, pearls of wisdom and truth fall like gentle rain from heaven. From the mouth of others, idiocies pour…
Read moreQuestioning the axioms
[Originally published in Indian Express, Jan 21, 2016 ] There are three ideas in the West about Law that are taken as axioms. The first: all societies are founded on…
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