Dear fellow heathens, We have uploaded some of the footage of the recent Rethinking Religion in India Conference (10-13 Jan. 2009). The new playlist contains ...
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Friends and fellow heathens, A new file has been uploaded to the Files section. It concerns a recent article by Balu, with the title "What do Indians Need: A...
... A great essay, and a wonderful line: in order to destroy the past of a people, give them a history. One quick thing - in examining the factoids about...
Dear Balu, Great article. It's good to see the focus shift to address the Indian side of the equation instead of focusing only on the damage done by the west....
Dear Balu, Great article. I have a question. Can we categorise the different ways of looking at the past as either Art or Science? The bards looked at it as...
This is kiran I am sending you my recently crated blogs URL link i expect your suggestions and comments, moreover you will find all my published articles...
This is kiran I am sending you my recently crated blogs URL link i expect your suggestions and comments, moreover you will find all my published articles...
I've been watching some of the videos on youtube of the conference proceedings (Rethinking Religion II and Dharma & Ethics). The videos present many different...
Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland says, "When I say a word it means whatever I choose it to mean, nothing more nothing less. So in science we use...
If The Heathen... works out, then grouping Christianity, Buddhism, etc., into "religion" will one day seem as quaint and non-intuitive as including Sun, Moon,...
What if we say: Rahu and Ketu are tracked as moving objects along with Sun and Moon to predict eclipses - thus these four objects fall into one class, from the...
Kalawar wrote: Do we trash Indian astrology by 'finding' correspondences e.g. grahas = planets which then make no sense - thus providing one more example of...
Please consider the following: Please consider the following: Saint Augustine of Hippo discredited Astrology in his The City of GOds Against The Pagans, some...
... 1. Since Newtonian physics can be built on an axiomatic basis, and the axioms have no theological assumptions, the answer is no, the Newtonian description...
... It is superstitious to believe in astrology, according to Augustine; here the contrast to superstition is the true religion. Even though superstitio was a...
Dear Friends, A few things are worth reiterating in this context. 1. As VNR notes, I suggest that we look at the phenomenon of Natural Sciences as a product of...
Marvelously lucid and penetrating explanations, Arun. It clarified my own thinking in many ways. One point: << 1. Since Newtonian physics can be built on an...
"Second, such explanations do not explain: they merely insinuate some kind of connection between facts and some implicit thesis. Third, invariably, such a...
The way the term `history' used in these two contexts is causing the confusion. The term 'history' is used in two different senses here. In the first citation,...
Ramanujam, the mathematician, attributed his results to a devi. However, his results are verifiable without any knowledge of the devi. We need to distinguish...
... Well, the heuristics that played a crucial role in the progress of natural sciences in the west are theological in nature; for more, 11.1.3 of The Heathen....
Dunkin, My doubt is indifferent to multiple notions of history. Let me reformulate my problem. One can collect a set of facts about the past, lets call such a...
Not clear to me VNR, again! Are you asking, how do we choose between multiple rival theories? Much has been said about it. So, I guess you are not talking...
... I think this is exactly the problem with the formulation of Indian History today. The kind of facts exists among the historians do not contradict with any...
An essay in Kannada by well-known writer K. Satyanarayana: http://ksatyanarayan.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post.html Should be of interest to Rajaram and others...
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