This paper questions the imputation of “greed and hatred” to intellectuals of classical India by Western scholars who overstep the bounds of academic enquiry; it looks into misinterpretation of a number of issues in Mimamsa by Johannes Bronkhorst and Sheldon Pollock.
Swami Dhirendra Shastri called for a meat-free Navratri in Bengal. Parties answered by invoking Shakta tradition. A restricted rite, stripped of its disciplines, has become “culture”, and Bengal uses its first taste of political freedom in decades to flaunt the very decay that helped undo it.
Moscow saw a rare confluence. CIA Director Ratcliffe to warn Putin, Vatican Foreign Minister Gallagher to stop Ukraine war, Indian Foreign Minister with a special message from PM Modi. Meanwhile Russia has destroyed "90% Warehouses" in Ukraine.
