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In Remembrance of 26/11 and Thanksgiving to the Heroes

Warn­ing: A post with­out struc­ture, theme or com­po­si­tion. Sense­less unedited out­pour­ing. Read at your own risk.
Blood, bul­lets, and deaths. Bru­tal vio­lence. Screams. Help­less­ness. Despair. Pain. Courage.
A nation of a bil­lion aspir­ing to be on the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil brought to its knees by just ten armed ter­ror­ists.
Hun­dreds died. Thou­sands wept. Mil­lions pan­icked. A bil­lion were ter­ror­ized.
The …

November 26, 2009 – 11:15 AM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, politics, religion, society | Tagged , , , , | Comments (16)

Religion in Environmentalism

In the dis­cus­sion sur­round­ing my pop­u­lar post Reli­gion vs. Gen­der Equal­ity & Fem­i­nism, there was a ref­er­ence to reli­gion and envi­ron­men­tal­ism. As if on cue, the Pope has now said:
“Is it not true that incon­sid­er­ate use of cre­ation begins where God is mar­gin­al­ized or also where his exis­tence is denied? If the human creature’s rela­tion­ship …

September 2, 2009 – 8:42 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in nature, religion | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)

Encouraging Superstition on TV

A few days back, I was watch­ing a children’s real­ity show on TV, Zee Saregamapa Lit­tle Champs. Young chil­dren sing and com­pete in this show, and there are two judges, one of whom is Ms. Alka Yagnik.

After one of the kids sung a song com­posed by Bappi Lahiri, Ms. Yag­nik said she had brought a …

July 28, 2009 – 6:47 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, children, culture, media, religion, society | Tagged , , , | Comments (39)

Religion vs. Gender Equality & Feminism

How do reli­gions treat women? How do eman­ci­pated women treat reli­gion? A sequence of events recently has made my mind unquiet over this sub­ject. Nita asked if Hin­duism was com­ing of age, with peo­ple per­form­ing the sacred ‘thread cer­e­mony’ on their daugh­ters. The BJP found itself trapped in the maze of con­fu­sion sur­round­ing Hin­dutva. And …

June 24, 2009 – 8:14 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, culture, philosophy, religion, society, women | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (89)

Religion vs. Atheism in Parenting

A few weeks back, I read Richard Dawkins in The God Delu­sion say:
I want us to flinch when we hear of a ‘Chris­t­ian child’ or a ‘Mus­lim child’. Small chil­dren are too young to know their views on life, ethics and the cos­mos. We should no more speak of a Chris­t­ian child than of a …

October 8, 2007 – 5:25 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in Humor, Personal, children, parenting, philosophy, religion, society | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (43)