Dear Ravi, 1. Without being dogmatic in some ways, learning is impossible: and this is what Balu's article on avidya is about. In Indian case, there is...
Oxford Recognition Opens New Window on Hindu Culture Oxford University has granted the status of Recognised Independent Centre to the Oxford Centre for Hindu...
Hello I have joined this group before 4 or 5 months, and I follow all the posts with great interest. While browisng through the previous posts , I observed...
Dear Jayaprakash and Ranjeeth, Thank you both very much for this unexpected initiative. Before giving up the Yahoo group, I would like to see what exactly the...
Random thoughts on e-groups and forums - Part 1 ... Most of you might already know this and possibly a lot more, but I am going to pretend that you guys don't...
Thank you Dunkin for posting this - I found many items in this article and the entire phenomenon of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies rather curious. The...
Thank you Dunkin for posting this - I found many items in this article and the entire phenomenon of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies rather curious. The...
Dear Satya, Thought-provoking questions. However, what you need doing is to reverse some of the things you said in order to come to better grips with our own...
Aside from the issue of colonial consciousness among Indians, there is also the problem of second generation Indians who are born in Europe or the U.S. Many...
To questions and points raised by Satya, Balu and Divya, the following came to mind. The second (and now the the third generation is just about entering ...
... These intellectuals are embroidering the existing background 'knowledge'; hence, your hypothesis that they have started to discover a theoretical entity...
... is ... Universities ... Hi Divya - I want to pick up what you said here and apply the question in the format Balu did. You said that it is *inevitable*...
Dear Satya, Just wait till your nephew is a bit older. He will probably consider himself more American than anything else. I doubt the hyphenation ever lasts...
Hi Divya, I should have clarified that my nephew doesn't hyphenate. He actually specifies that he's an American citizen and an "Indian original". I am very...
... culture in order to belong to it. >>>>> Dear Satya: What I am trying to say is that third generation kids cannot be considered anything but American....
In daily lives, we don't need to know 'determining' properties of any thing; rather, we'd entertain 'secondary', 'tertiary' or 'relevant' properties to...
This discussion appears to be about identity, not culture: Are you American or Indian, or some mix. How does need for such identity arise?How does it evolve?Is...
Dear Balu, Is Point #2 below conceived as something radically different from Avinash Jha's assertion that we 'accept the authority' of the Gavin Floods and...
Do we need to go and check for messages or are we notifed each time there's a new message? macgupta123 <macgupta123@...> wrote: What is the registration...
There are notifications for boards and topics. To request notifications from a specific board, that is, when a new topic is created in a specific board, click...
Dear Kannan, To your question, to the extent I understand Avinash Jha, the answer is a `yes'. Colonial consciousness, as I conceive it, incorporates the ...
Dear Balu, The thing I don't understand (which I raised with you earlier) is *why* these statements have such force to the colonized. They seem to be accepted...
... <cjayaprakashreddy@...> wrote: Okay, I registered and requested notification. By the way, the link you provided in your email explaining your board does...
I have participated on many php boards, but I really dont find any difference between a yahoogroup and a php board: I find yahoogroup more friendly than the...
Divya, ... That link had a "." at the end. Sorry about that! This should work: http://letsbuildanation.org/ind100forum/index.php Here is a little bit on the...
... <cjayaprakashreddy@...> wrote: Hi JP, Thanks for your response. I wasn't really worried about us being banned. It was just an example that came to mind....
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