The renowned and much feted historian of yesteryears , Romila Thapar, has published a new book of “essays and reflections”. And today’s The Hindu (18 June 2023) carries in its prominent column a very interesting interview conducted with her by way of promoting and endorsing the book. I reproduce the interview below in extenso. AfterContinue reading “Romila Thapar’s “tunnel view” of Indian History”
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-41
“varna-ashrama-dharma” “Varna-ashrama-dharma” was outlawed in 1950 in the country by the Constitution of India. It created a deep and fundamental fissure inside the philosophical world-view of the “ubaya-vedaantins” of Tamil Nadu. The trauma became yet another cause for the crisis of identity into which they plunged and it beset them throughout the post-Independence decades…. andContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-41″