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Agreed..... About the need for moderate (read: IMO-true) Hindus to speak out and keep the Parivar from becomming the face of Hinduism abroad. In the middle of the 20th century in the US, Hinduism was seen as 'touchy-feely' or 'profoundly more spiritual than anything in the west' etc. Now, with...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!:eek: How did you know?! I am about four books into my own investigation between (for a larger picture) the relationship between Sci and Rel. For "lots o' fun stuff" read and 'become' the following books.:D The Holographic Universe- Michael Talbot Science and...

True true. However, the Parivar have taken the multifacteted-ness (I declare this to be a WORD! :D ) of the term so that they can insert their own particulars into it. The VHP is (has been) very active in bringing multitudes of Hindus from inside different traditions together to 'get on the...

*heh* Y'know, I've been on other forums where rabid nationalism flares up from some of the regular Hindu posters, and this in turn, gives a (shall we say) slanted view on Islam in India... And it appears that not many (either because of lack of information or lack of conviction) respond...

Hello all.... I've been quite interested in the Siddham script, aka 'Bonji', for some time now. I have quite a few fonts dealing with Sanskrit, but I have yet to find a good siddham font... One that allows me to create conjunct consonants. Any suggestions. And, anyone out there with a...

Thanks for the welcome AgniDeva :D That's some good info, I forgot all about karmic subdivisions! (could you imagine living in one of those kinds of subdivisions?) Heh... Sorry :p Here's another idea KarmaKat: Have you heard of the TV show: My name is Earl? The entire premise is a guy...

Hmmm! Well, I am gonna try and give a technical definition of Karma. Karma is derived from the Sanskrit verbal root kr (pronounced 'kri'). It is an action noun derivative of the root. You take the root kr and add the suffix -man (which denotes an action noun) and you get Karma! Karma is a...

My first day here and already I like the climate! :D Half of my graudate work was on Hindu Nationalist Politics. I agree that the Sangh Parivar are simply fascists... Though there are European Scholars like Frawley and Est who claim to validate the various scenarios of the nats, they are...