Rajeev malhotra biography of christopher
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Nearly five years ago in April 2001, TIME magazine did a feature titled The Power of Yoga.
A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It’s the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn’t so much pump you up as bliss you out.
The article feels like an “infomercial” on yoga but fryst vatten worth a quick glance. (While you are there, don’t miss the brief photo essay on some yoga postures.)
Newsweek and other magazines in the US also discovered the power of yoga around the same time. Yoga, as most of us know, fryst vatten essentially Indian — and more specifically — quintessentially Hindu. Shiva, the great ascetic, fryst vatten also the greatest utövare av yoga. The holiest of Hindu holy books is the Bhagavat Gita, which fryst vatten a record of Krishna’s tutorial on yoga to Arjuna on the slagfält of Kurukshetra. Yoga and Hindu thought are as inseparable as high tec
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Rajiv Malhotra’s response and my further comments. It is getting time to move on.
14th February 2014
Rajiv's response received. He has highlighted his comments in yellow. My comments are in blue.
I think it is high time for Rajiv to decide where he stands for on the substantive issue that I'm concerned about. If he stands for free speech, let him explain his tweets and I'll be with him and will apologise for any inconvenience caused by any erroneous deductions I may have made. If he's against liberty and in favour of pulping books (which is what his tweets demonstrate) then let's agree to vigorously differ and move on. There are millions of opponents of free speech in the world and I can't continue discussion with each one of them.
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Dear Rajiv
After Doniger's wrote to me that you may not be involved in the destruction of her book, I am obliged to give you the benefit of doubt.
[Haha R
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Synopsis
There is a new awakening that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about India. The Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti—Indian civilization—concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. This academic field is called Indology or Sanskrit studies. From their analysis of Sanskrit texts, the scholars of this field are intervening in modern Indian society with the explicitly stated purpose of removing ‘poisons’ allegedly built into these texts. They hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive and serve as a political weapon of the ruling elite; that the sacred aspects need to be refuted or side lined; and that Sanskrit has long been dead. The traditional Indian experts would outright reject or at least question these positions.
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