March 12
worship of Jesus child
Maria posts: ....
Freising near Munich: Seelenkind (Soul child). When a new nun went to
the monastery, she brought a
Jesus child (doll) with her who was looked after by her during her
whole life in her room with fancy dresses, toys, even changing napkins
and fondling it. They discovered several Jesus children which used to
belong to nuns from our convent school. We never knew about it.
March 12
My new blog on Tibet Uprising Day: China delayed it by 4 days after
Rajiv shares his new blog on HuffPost: Please post comments THERE AND NOT HERE. You can post a link here to your comment...
.....BTW: My Wharton blog first went into 48 special editorial review, and I
had to escalate the matter to higher ups, complaining that HuffPost
should live up to its public image of intellectual freedom. Once I did
that it went thru fast. On the Tibet blog, it took 4 emails to various
levels of management, and well over 4 days...
March 13
Kant's rigid and abstract categorial imperative versus Indian contex
Subra shares a link: .... Rajiv ji tweeted yesterday: The post uses ideas from BD to study how Kant's 'categorical imperative' rigidity is less useful in practical conflict resolution (e.g. in modern decision-support systems) compared to the contextual ethics developed in Dharmic thought systems, and is illustrated using Asimov's sci-fi robotic laws. | | |
March 14
Re: Manipal's Mohandas Pai wakes up to India's shabby treatment, say
Ganesh shares:....visit to IISc, Bengaluru for the launch of Sri Rajiv Malhotra's
book Being Different. His speech in IISc, clearly showed his
understanding of the western universalism and how many of the Indian
academicians, with their left leanings, were influencing top US
universities in a manner that can only be called retarding progress.
Hoping to hear more such top notch names of Indian industry come out in open and voice their support for the right cause, without fear of media
and the ruling party.
Renu adds: "....Let us resolve to not just be the World Guru but also a
strong power that will stand for no nonsense and small acts of silly
disrespect from the West or the East any more. That is our YUGA DHARMA
now."
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March 16
Shri Rajiv Malhotra's Talk at New Delhi on 23 March
Jalan invites: ... 7th Chamanlalji Memorial
Lecture which Shri Rajiv Malhotra will be delivering. Details as below:
Event: 7th Chamanlalji Memorial Lecture
Main Speaker : Shri Rajiv Malhotra
Chief Guest : Dr.Subramanian Swamy
Time: Saturday March 23, 4.00 pm
Venue: Constitution Club, New Delhi
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March 16
Arun shares an alternative link: ....The Economic Times has it much better.
In brief, the IT department had gone after an institution claiming it was a religious, not a charitable institution; and the IT Tribunal said, no, it was a charitable institution...
Venkat comments:
"....Expense on worship of Hindu Gods & Temple maintenance cannot be regarded to be for religious purpose
The core issue the definition of Hinduism and giving importance and preference to the western term "religion" The answer will be a vigorous propagation of indigenous Hindu friendly terms while showing why foreign descriptions are not suitable for our society. .
Rajiv adds:
"A major problem has been caused in India by the legal use of the term "religion" in giving special tax treatment and other concessions. The above article is the latest of a series of rulings that some aspect of Hinduism is not entitled to religious treatment.
So to get equal rights in our own country, we must prove we are a "religion" as per Abrahamic criteria, because that's the definition enshrined in our laws.
I wish someone would litigate in the Supreme Court that the legal provisions made for "religions" should equally apply to dharmas as well. Otherwise we are at a disadvantage when we show our distinctiveness, and to claim parity we must get ourselves digested into "religion".
What a joke! What a circus full of clowns!!"
[We have noted Rajiv ji's comments on the sad state of affairs in the wikipedia page. This website now has a collection link to Rajiv Malhotra's works. Click Rajiv ji's picture on the right to access].
March 17
My Wikipedia entry is obsolete, misleading
Rajiv comments: ... In [the] .... Wiki post (on differences between dharma and religion) also, he has "digested" my works into a sundry of misc articles by several persons. There is virtually nothing I wrote and certainly not a deep appreciation of the differences between dharma/religion as expounded in BD
[this directly relates to the book BD. We hope to collect this discussions and summarize in a separate post]
March 17
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