Friends and fellow heathens, A short piece on the parallel between anti-Brahmanism and anti- Semitism: To be against Brahmanism is part and parcel of the...
A very thought provoking mail. I have come to similar conclusions based on material that I have read. However, evidence also seems to compel the view that...
Dear Ashok, Thanks for your reply. There is a slight problem though in seeing the Brahmins as the interpreters of scripture who therefore played a pivotal...
Dear Jakob You have mentioned in your earlier post discussing with ashok that the colonial courts of Christian as well as Muslim give the authority to Brahmin...
Dear friends, I have uploaded the article "John Locke, Christian Liberty, and the Predicament of Liberal Toleration" by Jakob and Balu, published in the...
Dear Jakob, A couple of remarks "In the case of Islam, its notion of God's law (the Shariat) and the institutional structures that developed to bring humanity...
Dear Geetanjali, Thanks very much for these corrections. I must admit that I do not have enough knowledge on the history of Mughal India to substantiate the...
... <dunkinjalki@...> wrote: Hi Dunkin, Very interesting post. I'm curious, what is this initiation ritual you talk about that Basava abolished? Also, I...
Dear Jakob, Thank you for your mail. As I have said earlier I do not dispute that institutional structures have played a role in spreading colonialism's ...
Dear Geetanjali, ... This is not to either agree or disagree with your view but you might want to consider the following: 1.The British regime had a clear...
Hi Divya, 1. By initiation ritual I mean the ritual of `upanayana', where a young Brahmin is initiated into Brahmin caste. [These unfamiliar words have crept...
... <dunkinjalki@...> wrote: Thanks Dunkin. I should have guessed you meant the upanayana ritual, but was somewhat carried away by my imagination. I think...
Hi everybody I had been meaning to respond to Jakob's mail but wanted to do it when I had some time. The issues are complex and abstruse, both. :-) I think...
Dear Divya, 1. Hey, you are right I am saying "pro instead of anti". Thanks for the correction. 2. You ask, "How is what you're saying different from the...
Dear Dunkin, May be am a bit late in putting across my responses here, nevertheless I would like to add some more elements to the discussion. This is also an...
Just finished reading this article. Okay, so we have a predicament and it seems many people are aware of it. The fact remains that this concept of toleration...
Dear Somashekhar, 1. A minor correction to begin with. I am not saying, "some stereotypes are selected and are amalgamated into the stories". I am rather...
I am trying to understand the concept of Explanatorily Intelligible Account and request your assistance in clearing a doubt that I have about EIA. Take the...
Dear Dunkin, Thanks for bringing to my notice the subtle difference in the way I was trying to reformulate the essence of your argument. Continuing the ...
Dear Divya, 1. I don't think the whole wide world has bought into the division between the public/political and the private/religious. Perhaps some ...
Thanks Jakob. That was very interesting. It was specially interesting to realize that the western ambition to develop secular political theories is genuine...
Viewing the headscarf as just a piece of clothing can stop us getting tied up in knots Mon, May 26, 2008 Ireland should avoid the headscarf debate. The best...
There is a mathematical puzzle, in which two people have to divide a cake equitably. A solution is that one person cuts the cake into two parts; the other...
From: "Religious thought and behaviour as by-products of brain function", Pascal Boyer http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pboyer/PBoyerHomeSite/articles/Boyer2003Religi...
... Whether or not religious beliefs and practices are found in all human groups, a belief that they are found in all human groups exists in the West!!!...
... In order to answer this, you need to spell out what makes something supernatural or paranormal. There exist many unexplainable phenomena in the world; that...
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