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Purva Paksha: Reversing the gaze
The antidote to Western universalism that privileges Western gaze and reduces all differences to sameness, lies in the dharmic practice of purva paksha, a...
Twitterati correct VP Venkaiah Naidu’s misguided “Yoga has no religion” notion
The Vice President of Bharat's official twitter handle made an interesting tweet last night -
https://twitter.com/VPSecretariat/status/1291369854105055232
In recent times, as Yoga has grown in popularity in...
Westerners Stealing Hindu Intellectual Property is More Than Plagiarism
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Colonial or a white supremacy mindset may be clever enough to adopt Hindu practices but denies giving credit where it is due. Stealing Hindu...
Bharatiya Traditional Knowledge: A Public Policy Perspective
Recently, twitter witnessed huge outrage over an article tweeted by American Scientific Association which referred to the ancient yogic technique of Pranayam as "Cardiac...
Time to Restore Mt. ‘Everest’ to its original name – Mt. ‘Sagarmatha-Chomolungma’
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All of us are aware from the days of our childhood that the highest mountain peak in the world is Mount Everest and it...
Hindu Dharma and New Thought Movement in the US
Hindu bashing in the US has been going on for over a century. Katherine Mayo’s infamous book Mother India (1927) comes to mind. Wendy...
Mischief on Yoga day
2014 is a momentous year for Bharatiya culture. It was the year that Mr. Narendra Modi took up office as the fourteenth Prime Minister...
Yoga is ‘pre-Hindu’, Does Not Lead to God: Kerala Catholic Church
In a statement calculated to discredit the very core of Hindu Dharma, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of Kerala has said that practising Yoga does not...
Hindu Resurgence and Challenges – Part 1
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In the recent years, organized Hindu groups have been trying to thwart any attack on Hindus and Hindu Dharma through agitations, demonstrations, and boycott...
Yogasatya Sthāpana : Decoding the secularization of yoga
While I admire people who take time off for practicing yoga in their daily life, I find the clamor of certain secular members, who...