or, The scandal of pursuing the Science of the Spirit amidst the Art of Religion It took me a lifetime of research, reflection and suffering to intuit the almost indefeasible nature of religion and the logic of its popular appeal. The appeal of religion is quite different from the appeal of science. Religion appeals primarily because […]
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There is an insight in the Bible that is least noticed by most Christians. That insight pertains to the deep but hidden connection between worshippers and murderers. The earliest hint is in the book of Genesis, chapter 4: Cain invited Abel, his brother, to join him in worship, when he wanted to kill him. And
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All of a sudden, Nupur Sharma, the feisty, flamboyant ‘national spokesperson of the BJP’ became ‘a fringe element’ of the party. She was suspended for saying what would have been assumed, behind the closed doors of the party, as mere plain-speaking. The question that Nupur Sharma would be asking now is: how does one know
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU AREN’T THE FRINGE? On the sad fall of Nupur Sharma Read More »
I am not an expert on Sabarimala. I am not an expert on anything. If anything, I am a generalist. I dabble with whatever comes my way. So for this post, I am exploring a question that may interest you as well: Why does the Sabarimala tradition deem the presence of women within the fertile
A THOUGHT ON SABARIMALA Read More »
Familiarity is the deadliest religious disease. We feel at home with the familiar, because the familiar does not make any demand on us. It excludes the need to think. Thinking has the potential to unsettle us in our settled ways. It is when the unfamiliar hits us that, thank God, our brain begins to tick!
IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD? Read More »
From childhood, whenever I heard that ‘there was no room in the inn’ for Jesus when he was born in Bethlehem, I used to feel sad. It is only recently that I realized how stupidly wrong I was! Here is the reason, in case you are interested (it will take only2 minutes of your time).
THE COCOON VERSUS THE HIGH ROAD, OR THE INN VERSUS THE WAY Read More »
The electronic media all through the day (10 March 2022) has been waxing eloquent about the stellar significance of the stunning BJP victory in UP. To me, that ranks second to what the Punjab results promise. Most BJP strategists will agree with me, even if they won’t do so in public. Let me tell
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To be inspired is to be filled and led by something beyond the self. It is to let something higher, something from beyond, into oneself to be continually guided, enabled and shaped by it. We can exist by ourselves, but we cannot be fully and vitally alive by ourselves. No man, as an English poet
Swami Agnivesh: An Inspired Life Read More »
Nadirshah must be laughing all the way home! He has become a household name in Kerala, thanks to Christians; much like the mediocre Danish cartoons on Prophet Mohammad becoming world-famous, thanks to Muslim hotheads. What is Nadirshah up to? More importantly, where are we headed? There are two streams of responses to the two films
What if Nadirshah is holding a mirror to us? Read More »
