The forgetting of Gandhi’s Challenge to the project of Modernity

The forgetting of Gandhi’s Challenge to the project of Modernity Incomplete essay written in 2001 which exist only as fragments and quotes, notes all scattered on the page so please bear with me as I hope to complete it someday, also, this time I will use Vinay Bhals article to re[frame] and repost and in [...]

Birdy Num Num and the Problem of Hindu Muslim violence.

I received this Email and I sympathize with its cause. But at the same time I do feel that such goody gestures don’t get us any where. usually its only the 0.005 percent of the whole population that actually think in such idealistic birdy nam nam fashion, the rest of the majority. The 99.05 percent [...]

Why does religion refuses to go away?

You open the newspaper and the first thing you read today is “Woman burnt, 12 churches razed during Orissa bandh” and you wonder, as to why wont religion go away.

Well we may have some answers in regards to this perplexing question.  To start with, It is now confirmed (by neurogenetics) that religion like sex is hard-wired into us by evolution and so here to stay. (though there are good reasons for doing that and one can trust evolution) But with the rapidly changing times, there seems to something amiss from its essential know-how…Read on