Sources of Hindu Dharma – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”GLEJYd5HOnUrFsgEnyQSawX7DAmrz1Iu”] In the previous article, we examined different sources of dharma like Shruti, Smriti, Sadāchāra or Shishtāchāra, Ātmapriya or Ātmatushti, More...
Sources of Hindu Dharma – I
In Hindu Dharma, the following four are considered the most authoritative sources of Dharma – the Vedic scriptures (Shruti), the Smriti scriptures, the good practices followed by the virtuous or traditional practices More...
Manu Smriti: locating dharma and adharma in the light of modernity
The Manu Smriti, the ancient treatise on dharma has been the subject of enormous traditional pre-modern veneration and immense modernist revulsion. The more than 2000-year-old text whose antiquity rivals the oldest More...
Understanding Manu Smriti-III: Need for men to learn self-control
[contextly_sidebar id=”XyhUgNHIH3uNm2X75v0hdLVGAYqmcE8D”] In the last article, we examined verse 213 from the second chapter of Manu Smriti, which has been interpreted as being disparaging towards women, More...
Manu Smriti’s profound understanding of Sexuality can counter sexual violence
[contextly_sidebar id=”S90bK5SH6JMabEPdef1ruuLw2La3472k”] “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is More...
Understanding Manu Smriti-II: Nature of Women
[contextly_sidebar id=”bFY94ELPCPD9ygDP0qiPvYFvallTWcHC”] In the previous article, we saw how one of the most touted verse from Manu Smriti, which is used to as ultimate evidence for Manu Smriti being More...
Understanding Manu Smriti-I: Women and Freedom
पिता रक्षति कौमारे भर्ता रक्षति यौवने । रक्षन्ति स्थाविरे पुत्राः न स्त्री स्वातन्त्र्यमर्हति More...
‘The Poor debates’ and ‘The Debates about the Poor’
We the people of this Great Nation ‘India’ that is ‘Bharat’ have always been argumentative since time immemorial. Diversity of ideas and opinions has been the essence of our age old continuing civilization’s More...
Judicial Traditions and Processes in Hinduism: An Overview
Authored by Judge C. G. Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice and former judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. This was first published in Sunday Times, Sri Lanka. Hinduism More...
Caste, critique and colonial consciousness: A response to Meena Dhanda
Foreword The article below is a response to Meena Dhanda’s article “Anti-castism and misplaced nativism: Mapping caste as an aspect of race in the July/August 2015 issue of the British based journal Radical More...