Religion
Category
Hindu Violence against Buddhism in India has NO Parallel
Read it in Hindi from भारत में बौद्ध धर्म के खिलाफ हिंदू हिंसा का कोई समानांतर नहीं है
The ruthless demolition of Buddha statues by the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan has invited severe criticis…
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Sikhism
Ambedkar was, after his famous conversion announcement of 1935, determined to seek alternatives to Hinduism. Which religion would this be? Around 1936 we can see the evidence of Ambedkar’s attr…
Rules of Modern Manusmriti That Apply Only to Dalits on Social Media
Recently, the Facebook account of Raya Sarkar, who started compiling the list of sexual harassers (mostly from so-called upper castes) in academics, was blocked and some people who had shared her p…
Dussehra Diwali Versus Vijyadashmi and Deepdan-Utsava
This month the Hindus celebrate two of their main festivals: Dashahra and Diwali. The Buddhists celebrate Vijayadashmi and Deepdan-utsava respectively on the same days. The Brahmanist scholars clai…
Buddhism and Social Revolution
When Babasaheb Ambedkar embraced Buddhism publicly in 1956 in Nagpur, he planned to have conversion ceremonies throughout India: Agra, Chennai, and Mumbai were on the planning map. The conversion m…
Do Depressed Classes Desire Temple Entry? – What Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Said
N. B. :- Gandhi requested Dr. Ambedkar to lend his support to Dr. Subbarayan’s Temple entry Bill and that of Ranga Iyer-when both met on 4th Feb. 1934 at Yeravada Prison. Dr. Ambedkar declined in p…
Festivals in India and No Value of Human Lives
Festivals are important for human societies. They are the occasions to celebrate and most of them offer occasions to commune with other human beings. Indian society, particularly caste-ridden Hindu…
Politics of Reservation in Temples in Kerala and Temple Reforms
Travancore was a progressive princely state and Maharaja of Travancore was counted among one of the progressive Maharajas during the British Raj. The Travancore Temple Management Board has applied …
Theft in Caste System
When Prof. Kancha described Bania capitalism in India as social smuggling, the Banias in South threatened with violence and death threats. He had to undergo self-imposed house arrest. The word he u…
A Few Poems from “Sudirsukt – Hymns of a Shudra” – Book Which Brahmins Want to Ban
Let me share educationist and well-known translator Prof Augusto Pinto’s translations — from the e-pages of the Goa Book Club — of Sudirsukt, a collection of poems by the former legislator in the…
Buddhism, Human Rights, and Social Renewal
“Buddhism, Human Rights, and Social Renewal” is the title of a book written by Nalin Swaris. It is a short book, but perhaps more relevant for the students of Buddhism, Human Rights, and social mov…
What is the Buddhists’ Moral Responsibility at the Time of Rohingya Genocide?
Buddha was the first great reformer in the ancient society and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar believed that Buddhism could be called as a revolution. A religious revolution that turned into social as well a…
Understanding Indian Communist Leadership – From ‘Why I am not a Hindu’ by Prof Kancha Ilaiah
Notionally the Communist leadership was trying to portray itself as an integral part of the masses and to stress that it was no different from the people. But in reality the Dalitbahujan masses and…
How do Hindu Gods & Goddesses Compare with Dalit-Bahujan’s Gods & Goddesses
How do Hindu Goddesses like Lakshmi, Saraswati, Parvati, Durga compare with Dalitbahujan’s Goddesses like Pochamma, Kattamaisamma, Polimeramma, Yellamma, Mankalamma, Mareamma ?
The cultural, eco…
Hinduism was Born out of the Philosophy of Inequality
Hinduism was born out of a philosophy that stated that God created human beings unequal. This thesis was propounded in the Rig Veda itself. In this process the country and the people who suffered m…
