KOCHI: Amid an ideological battle, author Manu S Pillai steps back centuries to trace the formation of the modern Hindu identity in his new book Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of The Modern Hindu Identity. Armed with rigorous research and fascinating anecdotes, Manu — who was on the jury for the recently-held Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman by The New …
This was the 97th anniversary of the foundation of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which was founded on the same day in 1925. Dr Bhagwat’s speech covered many practical aspects of economic issues, social issues like women’s empowerment, proper nurturing of the youth through New Education Policy to unleash their true potential and advice to Indians to be part of renaissance of …
After the advent of Narendra Modi in 2014, with a resurgence of Hindu nationalism, the attacks on Hindu festivals have become a lot more orchestrated and at different levels Everyday Hinduness has very few overt markers. The collective joy and the invisible spiritual vibrations of festivals bring India together, lift its mental health, give it infinite resilience to survive invasions, …
In Hindu scheme of things, there is no such thing as exploitation of one human by others, rather it assigns cohesiveness among the living creatures In the last two centuries, a narrative has been built at the global level that there are only two ideologies or ‘isms’: Communism-Socialism and Capitalism. Surprisingly, these two ‘isms’ are at loggerheads specifically over the …
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