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Jaithirth Rao

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Don’t use Western idea of religion or ideology to understand ‘dharma’. It’s much more complex

SN Balagangadhara, a professor at Ghent University, said that by accepting ‘religion’ as something that we must willy-nilly engage with, we are...

13.02.2025 10

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Bibek Debroy Will Be Remembered As An “Acharya”

03.11.2024 9

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Bibek Debroy was an ‘Acharya’ in India’s intellectual history

In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and...

01.11.2024 10

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Tirupati: More Than Laddus, It's The Story Of Us

23.10.2024 10

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I saw Ratan Tata standing at the ATM in my building like a common man that day—Jaithirth Rao

Ratan Tata never made me feel that, just because I was no longer a powerful banker but rather a struggling entrepreneur, I had to be treated less...

11.10.2024 5

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Tirupati is the story of us. It’s more than laddus

The temple rituals take from multiple Hindu sects: Vaishnava, Shaiva, Kaumara, and Shakta. This integrated vision has made Tirupati the most...

05.10.2024 2

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West’s 1930s obsession is warping its view of today’s threats. Trump & Putin aren’t ‘Hitlers’

The long shadow of the 1930s blinds us to the fact that the US and NATO have been behaving like Nazi Germany, while Putin was the appeaser until...

23.09.2024 5

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Zareer Masani showed us how to respond to the superficial JNU-AMU anti-colonialists

Like his father Minoo before him, Zareer Masani had moved away from undergraduate leftism to a mature conservative stance.

14.08.2024 8

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JD Vance & his New Right can’t be dismissed glibly—he appeals to something deep, necessary

Vance’s speech forced me to start researching the New Right, an exercise which I think will be useful for our own think tanks.

19.07.2024 2

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