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Renaming Caste, Retaining Privilege

Attempts to 'invisibilise' caste through definitional alterations – whether in terms of an organic community or of a cultural community – are enmeshed in long-range socioeconomic transformations. Ankur Barua and Vishal Ananthakumar write.

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https://www.theindiaforum.in/caste/renaming-caste-retaining-privilege

#Om #Sanskrit #Spirituality #IncredibleIndia #HinduScriptures #Chants #Mantra

NCERT Reading Modules Credit Modi for Success of Chandrayaan-3, Mix Space Science with Vedas

Space science experts say the special supplementary reading modules by NCERT on the Chandrayaan mission do injustice to ISRO and its scientists, who have over the years bounced back from every failure in their way.

#NCERT #NCERTTextbooks #chandrayaan3 #HinduScriptures #pseudoscience #NarendraModi #BJP #propaganda #education #hindutva #india

https://thewire.in/education/ncert-reading-modules-credit-modi-for-success-of-chandrayaan-3-mix-space-science-with-vedas

‘This is Sanatana’: VCK slams TN Guv RN Ravi for presiding over Dalit poonul ceremony

RN Ravi gave a speech at the event in which he said that there were no inequalities in the Vedas, and that “we are equal”.

#TamilNadu #RNRavi #TNGovernor #janeu #brahminism #CastePride #SanatanaDharma #SanatanDharma #HinduScriptures #VCK #TholThirumavalavan #governors #BJP #RSS #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/this-is-sanatana-vck-slams-tn-guv-rn-ravi-for-presiding-over-dalit-poonul-ceremony

RJD’s Chandra Shekhar compares Ramcharitmanas to potassium cyanide, stirs row

The Bihar education minister said that while Hindu scriptures had many good things to offer, they were equally problematic in some aspects.

https://scroll.in/latest/1056036/rjds-chandra-shekhar-compares-ramcharitmanas-to-potassium-cyanide-stirs-row

#bihar #ChandraShekhar #RJD #SanatanaDharma #SanatanDharma #ramcharitmanas #brahminism #casteism #CasteDiscrimation #HinduScriptures #manusmriti #RSS #golwalkar #india

I started using Sanatana Dharma to stop Sangh Parivar groups from twisting my words as an attack on Hindu beliefs: Thirumavalavan

While Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s recent comments about “eradicating Sanatana Dharma” have snowballed into a political controversy, it was VCK founder Thol. Thirumavalavan who had enshrined Sanatana Dharma in the lexicon of Tamil Nadu’s political discourse over the past five years.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/i-started-using-sanatana-dharma-to-stop-sangh-parivar-groups-from-twisting-my-words-as-an-attack-on-hindu-beliefs-thirumavalavan/article67274484.ece

#TamilNadu #TholThirumavalavan #VCK #SanatanaDharma #brahminism #UdayanidhiStalin #DMK #hinduism #BRAmbedkar #EVRPeriyar #ambedkar #periyar #RSS #BJP #hindutva #CasteDiscrimination #caste #HinduScriptures #SanatanaDharmaRow #india

How Scientists Meghnad Saha, J.V. Narlikar Rubbished Claim of Vedic Roots of Modern Science

“If superior knowledge in astronomy, aeronautical engineering, etc., is available in the ancient texts in Sanskrit, why isn’t the ISRO using them? Can (S. Somanath) show one piece of technology or theory that ISRO has taken from the Vedas and applied to make a rocket or a satellite?”

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/how-scientists-meghnad-saha-j-v-narlikar-rubbished-claim-of-vedic-roots-of-modern-science/

#ISRO #chandrayaan3 #SSomanath #vedas #sanskrit #astronomy #pseudoscience #HinduScriptures #MeghnadSaha #JayantNarlikar #BSS #science #india