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Cārvāka Miscellany – Part II
800×600 Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Materialism in India, very much like materialism in Greece, has to be reconstructed on the basis of fragments. Although the materialist tradition can be traced back to the Upaniṣads on the one hand, and the Buddhist and Jain canonical works on the other, the fragments offer only a glimpse of materialist thought. […]
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Cārvāka Miscellany – Part II
800×600 Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Materialism in India, very much like materialism in Greece, has to be reconstructed on the basis of fragments. Although the materialist tradition can be traced back to the Upaniṣads on the one hand, and the Buddhist and Jain canonical works on the other, the fragments offer only a glimpse of materialist thought. […]
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BJP | Hindu Fundamentalism | Hindu Nationalism | Hindutva | Pluralism | Ram Puniyani | RSS
Modi came to power with a bang. Riding on the support of the Corporate World, the RSS combine, the media blitz and the promises of sky; he managed to get 31% of votes and 262 seats in the Lok Sabha. This is the first time BJP managed a simple majority in lower house of Parliament. This also […]
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Ajivika | Buddhism | Carvaka | Indian Materialism | Indian Philosophy | Jainism | Lokayata | Manimekalai | Nilakeci | Ramakrishna Bhattacharya
Specimens of Philosophico-Religious Literature in Tamil: The Maṇimēkalai and the Nīlakēci
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya North-South Divide The story of Agastya, a north Indian sage, crossing the Vindhya hills and visiting south India (never to return), is well known. It has given rise to a proverb, Agstya-yātrā in Bangla and maybe in other north Indian languages. Like all legends it is without date. So, it has been interpreted […]
