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Wikipedia biases in my entry (just as one example) which it prevents being corrected. It is re-colonizing Indians.
India is the world largest territory, both geographically and by population, that is up for grabs by the expansionist, predatory ideological movements in the world.
The modern academics find it politically incorrect to criticize the devastation under Islamic rule, even though post-colonial scholars have amply exposed the ruin created by the British.
Indra's Net (2014)
The point being that the influence of dharmic philosophy on Western culture runs deep and yet consistently goes unacknowledged.
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)
A classical concept in Hinduism has been that a true proposition has to be consistent with sruti, yukti (reason/logic) and anubhava.
Indra's Net (2014)
There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India and the intellectual machinery that produces it.
The Battle for Sanskrit (2016)
Unfortunately, Hindu nationalism today sometimes seems to be mimicking the worst things about the West, by becoming obsessively history-centric. But this is different than the past of Hinduism, and is atypical amongst Hindus even today.
Rajiv Malhotra (2003)
Such attacks and provocations on indigenous spiritual traditions never find their way into international media or the reports about freedom of religion.
In fact, there is no record that Indian society on a large scale decided to abandon identities based on varna or jati as a result of the teachings of the Buddha.
I am not alone in making this point. At least one European Indologist accuses Pollock of relocating Orientalism 'to the "New Raj" across the deep blue sea'.
The Battle for Sanskrit (2016)
These are the consequences when Indians decide to imitate Harvard rather than re-building our own Nalanda.
Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0 (2022)
The contradiction between Christian exclusivism and true liberalism is seldom discussed openly (and perhaps even privately).
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)
What many Indians are unaware of is that public trust in the Gates Foundation and its intentions are being questioned in the US.
Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0 (2022)
When Hindus are to be blamed for their alleged hatred towards Muslims, the Muslims are shown to have an important presence; but when Muslims are to be protected from being assigned any responsibility for destruction, they are mysteriously made to disappear from the scene.
The Battle for Sanskrit (2016)
I began to see the beginnings of what was later to crystallize as my thesis that history-centrism is the key difference between Judeo-Christian and dharma traditions.
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)
This book is even more important than Breaking India because today’s ‘Breaking India forces 2.0’, as this book refers to them, are operating behind the scenes. They can only be understood upon careful and incisive investigation into their activities.
Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0 (2022)
A religion with an ever-growing line of enlightened masters, such as exists in the dharma traditions, is less likely to become fossilized into institutional dogma and therefore more difficult to control.
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)
All modern sociological studies on caste use these arbitrary colonial conceptualizations. After India’s Independence, the democratic system turned castes into vote banks which have been manipulated by politicians ever since to serve their vested interests.
& Viswanathan V (2022)
While the inner sciences have a long history in countries such as India, Tibet and China, they have never rejected the outer sciences, and there has never been a conflict between dharma and science as there has been between Western religion and science.
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)
The dangers of allowing foreign ownership of India’s critical infrastructure and foreign control over information flow on that infrastructure cannot be overstated. Especially when the foreign hand has a history of facilitating civil wars and regime changes.
Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0 (2022)