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In Mongolia has been discovered a mass grave containing the remains of thousands of Buddhist monks liquidated by a former communist regime. An 83-old man, once head of an extermination squad, admitted that he personally put 15,724 to death. 1197-at-Nalanda was repeated not by invading Muslim armies but by local communist revolutionaries and social transformers.

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The new self-styled social justice intellectuals and parties do not want an India without castes, they want castes without dharma.

In Western thought, the body holds the soul; in Indian thought, the soul holds the body.

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European Imperialism and European Christianity were twins. It is difficult to say whether the flag followed the cross or the cross followed the flag.

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“Perhaps a creed is best known by what it does when it holds political sway.”

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