All posts in Philosophy, Religion, Culture

The historicity of Rama- should it really matter?
October 24, 2010, 13 Comments

Speculation about the historicity of Rama is a flourishing industry in India. Some are convinced that there was a histor ...

Karma and rationality
October 20, 2010, 2 Comments

Sometime ago I wrote this post on my idea of karma. It generated a heavy discussion and left me with many questions. Thi ...

Ashchhe Bochhor Abaar Hobe
October 18, 2010, 4 Comments

A Calcuttan reflects on Durga Puja in London. And loves it.

Gandhi and Ayodhya
October 2, 2010, 3 Comments

Celebrating Gandhi Jayanti, 2nd October, 2010 Given the recently delivered judgment in the Ayodhya title suit,[1] and th ...

Karma
September 26, 2010, 11 Comments

(This is a guest post by blogger Akshat Rathi where he narrates his experience with the Hindu concept of Karma) I was b ...

Religion, Terrorism and Language
September 16, 2010, 4 Comments

The recent exchange between the Home Minister Chidambaram and Digvijay Singh over the use of the phrase ‘saffron terro ...

Odd Passages in the Vedas and what they might mean – I
September 13, 2010, 6 Comments

I have always been struck by one gnawing feeling whenever I read the Vedas and the Upanishads. That some of the passages ...

Save Indian Classical Music
September 3, 2010, 24 Comments

This article is going to be one of those lamenting cries for action that we so often read. The cry this time is going to ...

Zero: A philosophical history of an Indian Idea – II
August 27, 2010, 35 Comments

 The Men Who Knew Infinity  Zero and infinity are curious beasts; they defy our logical understanding of the world. Tr ...

Zero: A philosophical history of an Indian idea – I
August 20, 2010, 1 Comment

This post is the first of a trilogy, where I will be revisiting a somewhat hackneyed topic: the Indian roots of Zero. Ho ...