Debdutt Pattanaik is for the business class of Mumbai and Delhi a rather brilliant populizer of Hindu mythology, but I wonder how popular he will remain, once the babu class of Hindutva populizers discover how liberal and syncretist he is in his interpretations of the major Hindu scriptures ( Read more... )

I think that this is the most important essay that I've ever read on the actual causes of the Holocaust, as well as its relevance for what's going on in the United States right now. The parallels with the Trump phenomenon are huge; history really does repeat itself in the annals of  a people who are blind to anything but immediate gratification of ( Read more... )

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My dearest friend in India runs a guest house in a beautiful place called McLeod Gunj in the State of Himmachal Pradesh.  For several years now, I’ve had the dream of making for myself and my closest friends a bolt-hole in India, a refuge from imminent catastrophes that I have an ominous dread of, and which I foresee as being inevitable, as a ( Read more... )

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