"Post" Phenomenal Arcades

Fate of non-Hindus in Hindu Rashtra

There is much task about what would be the fate of non-Hindus when the Sangh Parivar associations succeed in establishing the Hindu-Rashtra in India. As regards this question, Golwalkar, the second chief of RSS and the ideologist of Hindutva, advises the Hindus to learn from Hitler who was ready to do anything to retain the […]

Citizens of Hindu Rashtra

The real nature of Hindutva nationalism can be grasped only by understanding who would be the progenies of the Hindu Rashtra. Will it be a country of Hindus alone? If so, who among the Hindus will have dominion in the country? The Sangh has doubtlessly clarified that Bharat would be a land of the Hindus. […]

Stepping Stones to the Mountain of Pride

Fr. John Kadookunnel (Continue….) We are continuing to climb the stepping stones to the mountain of pride as envisaged by St Bernard of Clairvaux. It all begins with sinful curiosity of mind, and moves from mental makeup, then to behaviour, which leads to the habit of slowly closing in oneself, heeding neither to others nor […]

Stepping Stones to the Mountain of Pride

Fr. John Kadookunnel That “pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov. 16:18) is common knowledge. Yet, as Benjamin Franklin writes in his autobiography, “In reality there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as […]

Hindutva is Ethnocentric

Antony D. Smith, who wrote Theories of Nationalism, divides nationalism into two kinds: ethnocentric and polycentric. The polycentric nationalism recognizes different cultural and power centres which in an attitude of mutual dialogue and enrichment share their power and ideals for the common good of the nation. Smith considers only this broader type of nationalism as […]

Gandhian Nationalism

It was only from the end of the eighteenth century that nationalism received the sense in which it is in use today. Hans Kohn defines nationalism as a state of mind, in which the supreme loyalty of the individual is felt to be due the nation-state. Every nation possesses certain objective factors distinguishing them from […]

Gandhian View on Religion and Politics

One of the fundamental ideas of Gandhi’s political philosophy is that religion lies at the core of all human life and endeavour. Politics to be useful has to be based on religion. Man cannot advance politically without becoming more moral and more religious. He believed that political freedom will result only from moral freedom i.e. […]

Context based faith education

Any branch of knowledge, although it may appear to be often conceptual, is born and brought up in a concrete locality and in relation to a particular event. Religious sciences like philosophy and theology are also formed in different parts of the world at the grass root level. They have to so because they are […]

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