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April 12, 2016 · 0 CommentSpotlight: A Courageous Exposé
Spotlight: A Courageous Exposé
Spotlight: A Courageous Exposé
by Kalavai Venkat
The movie Spotlight won the Academy Award for best picture recently. It is an admirable movie for many reasons. It retells of a real-life story. It is, ... Continue Reading →
The Straw Man Fallacy and the Battle for Sanskrit
The Straw Man Fallacy and the Battle for Sanskrit
Kalavai Venkat
The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive? (TBFS) is Rajiv Malhotra’s latest book, ... Continue Reading →
A Review of “An Atrocious Biography”
A Review of “An Atrocious Biography”
Aron Aronite
From the grammatically inaccurate term ‘Lives’, gets unleashed this narrative style of insinuations about Sri Aurobindo- as if the Mystic ... Continue Reading →
A Response to Intellectual Aggression by Peter Heehs
A Review of
An Atrocious Biography
by RY Deshpande
[This is a book critiquing Peter Heehs’s The Lives of Sri Aurobindo published by the Columbia University Press, US, in May 2008.]
There are any number ... Continue Reading →
Hating Hindus as a Fun Activity
Hating Hindus as a Fun Activity
A Review of ‘Introducing Hinduism’ by Vinay Lal (2005), Totem Books, USA.
By Vishal Agarwal
The book under review combines cartoons with text – an attractive and light-hearted ... Continue Reading →
The Hindu Philosophy of Life Through the Movie, “The Life of Pi”
The Hindu Philosophy of Life
Through the Movie, “The Life of Pi”
This Q&A was prepared by the author to introduce the concepts of Jagat, Māyā and Samsāra in the Hindu worldview to middle ... Continue Reading →
Hans Henrich Hock – A Scholar Lying Through His Teeth
Hans Henrich Hock
A Scholar Lying Through His Teeth
Hans Henrich Hock, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Sanskrit at the University of Illinois, and a prolific speaker and crusader for certain points ... Continue Reading →
Of course, He knows every Mother’s heart!
Of course, He knows every Mother’s heart!
(A critique of Arun Shourie’s book ‘Does He know a Mother’s Heart?’)
M Pramod Kumar
12 December 2013
Source: Vijayvaani.com, http://www.vijayvaani.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?aid=3040
Having ... Continue Reading →
Wendy’s Hindu-Phobia – Withdrawal of Book and Anti-Hindu Propaganda
WENDY’S HINDU-PHOBIA
(Dhiru Shah)
Withdrawal of Book and Anti-Hindu Propaganda
After deliberation for nearly four years, Penguin India compromised on February 4, 2014 in an out of court settlement to ... Continue Reading →
The Doniger Book Controversy
Penguin India reached an agreement with a litigant and agreed to voluntarily withdraw Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History from the market within six months. Doniger decried the decision, ... Continue Reading →