Someone brought the topic of Hinduism, its challenges not in India, but in the U.S where it is studied as a course in Universities as 'Religious Studies' course. There was also mention of Vikram Malhotra who wrote 'Breaking India'. He took a contrarian view on the Indology being practiced and is running a research foundation to break the stereotyping of Hinduism.
Now, I am not sure what to make of it.. but will surely try to read after... maybe...20-30 years.
An unrelated topic is regarding Sanskrit. As per the official census India 2001, the people who can read, write and speak Sanskrit (all three) in India is a mind boggling 42,000. Pretty depressing, I will surely do my bit by learning, thanks to Hindi, I can read and write the devanagari script. Understanding and speaking to strike conversations is what I have to learn.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
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