Comparing Religions on Taleb’s Anti-Fragility Scale
This article explores various religions all over the world on the Taleb's scale of anti-fragility. It analyzes how systems which seem very strong in normal times, may actually be very fragile and thus just one crisis away from total collapse. The Prophetic Monotheistic Religions of Christianity and Islam seem to be fragile and heading to an unseemly collapse, while Sanatana Dharma might gain from this disorder, as it has always been decentralized and personalized, not depending upon State or central structures.
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Will Corona Virus cure our Colonial Hangover?
As the novel Corona Virus threatens to disrupt our lives, most of us are wary and pessimistic about what the future holds. But our traditional wisdom tells us that a moment of crisis is also a moment of transformation. This may be especially true in the domain of education that has witnessed a huge impact by the novel Corona Virus. Schools and colleges remain closed in almost all countries of the world and some fear that educational institutions will remain closed for a long time even after the lockdown is lifted. What are the solutions? Read on to know more.
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Emerging New Perspectives on Epidemiology
In this timely satire, Satish Verma takes on the millenials who have suddenly taken upon the profession of epidemiology and garnishing it with liberal notions of social justice, are wreaking havoc upon any ears sensitive to scientific truth. He takes upon feminism, liberalism and the kind of Indian secularism which goes to great lengths to defend Tablighi Jamaat, but attacks everything Hindu.
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Prophetic Monotheism: The Longest Running Pandemic in History
While the world is reeling from the Corona Virus pandemic which is barely months old, we all are suffering from another virus, of an ideological kind, which has been spreading across the world for the past two thousand years continuously. It has been spreading death, destruction, violence and destroying peace all this time. It has infected a majority of humanity barring a few countries like India and China. This ideological virus is Prophetic Monotheism. Read Pankaj Saxena making this apt comparison in this article.
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सामाजिक दूरी का महत्त्व: १९१८ की महामारी से सीख
यह विश्व पहली बार महामारी से नहीं जूझ रहा| लगभग सौ साल पहले भी हमने एक भयंकर महामारी का सामना किया था जिसका नाम था स्पेनिश इन्फ्लुएंजा| इस बीमारी ने पुरे विश्व में ५ से १० करोड़ तक जानें ली थीं| उस महामारी में ली गयी कई सीखों को हम अभी भी प्रयोग में ला सकते हैं और कोरोना वायरस महामारी के तीव्र प्रकोप से बच सकते हैं|
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The Tabligh Movement or Millions of Bearded Militants on the March – 1
In this brilliant expose of Tablighi Jamaat, India's finest historian Sita Ram Goel proves that Tablighi Jamaat is not a social movement. It has no peaceful intentions and it has no spiritual or philosophical bent. Like all Islamic movements it is also a militant movement, with violent goals and genocidal intentions about the non-Muslim groups at its target, the most visible of the enemies, being the Hindus. In light of this two-part series, the current deeds of Tablighi Jamaat do not constitute outlier behavior, but is symptomatic of the core ideology of Tablighi Jamaat.
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Tablighi Jamaat: The Real Face of Islam
In this short essay, Khalid Umar destroys a common delusion: that an extremist Islamic organization does not represent true Islam. He argues, with the short history and behavior of Tablighi Jamaat that their behavior truly and completely aligns with the fundamentals of Islam. They represent true Islam, rather than an abrogation of it.
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The Making of Ramayana – Mark Tully on Ramanand Sagar’s Epic Creation
Ramayana is the dearest story to Hindus. Almost everyone knows it by heart. In modern times, Ramanand Sagar made a serial on it which was aired on Doordarshan. It was a hit like no other in the history of television. Traffic would stop. Shops would shut. Offices would halt, when the serial was going on. People would cry watching it. In hundreds. And yet, the 'secular intellectuals' of that period called it the most heinous production of fascist, Nazi, rightist, mass-murdering Hindus. That is how vicious, anti-people, anti-human left-liberal criticism can get. In this piece, Mark Tully, in his wonderfully pacifying style, tells us how important the serial was to India. How it connected to the very soul of India. As the serial is once again aired in these hard times, let us read what Mark Tully had to say about the audio-visual rendering of the greatest story ever told.
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21 Books to Read in 21 Days Lockdown – Literature
Indic Varta in this piece by Pankaj Saxena brings you the recommendation of 21 Greatest Books in Literature to read in this 21 Days Lockdown. Read away. There is plenty of time!
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The Concept of Shaucha or Cleanliness in Hindu Dharma
In this article, Nithin Sridhar, editor of Indiafacts, tell us what the Indian concept of cleanliness is. In these calamitous times, when COVID-19 is raging through the globe, it is important to understand why India has never given pandemics to the world. We need to understand what standards it followed, which made it possible to live with good general health, despite having one of the largest populations in the world.
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