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The Dharma Civilization Foundation’s Strategic Retreat

The Dharma Civilization Foundation’s Strategic Retreat

On 5-7 February 2015, the Dharma Civilization Foundation (DCF) organized a brainstorm conference called “Strategic Retreat” in SVYASA outside Bengaluru. Coming in the first year of the reputedly Hindu government of Narendra Modi, it could not but serve as an occasion for guiding and correcting the thought informing the present policies. The organizers themselves had [...]

March 18, 2015 Dr Koenraad Elst World Focus 0

Defeat in Delhi : Wannabe Secularism Don’t Work for the BJP

Defeat in Delhi : Wannabe Secularism Don’t Work for the BJP

The BJP’s thundering defeat in Delhi was not due to any sudden merits of the Aam Aadmi Party, but to several problems inside the BJP itself. That much is not controversial. The debate is all about what exactly were the mistakes made. Campaign strategy – We need not spend many words on the poor campaign strategy, contrasting [...]

February 15, 2015 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights 0

Down with Decolonization

Down with Decolonization

(Speech given at the Dharma Civilization Foundation’s Strategic Retreat, SVYASA, Jigani/Bengaluru, 5-7 February 2015) A knife is sharpened by shaving away all the superfluous material that makes it dull. A sharp knife is a live case of “less is more”: less material means more sharpness. At an action-oriented “strategic retreat”, our knife should be sharpened [...]

February 11, 2015 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights 0

Hindus are Tribals, Hindus are Pagans

Hindus are Tribals, Hindus are Pagans

 At the 5th Gathering of the Elders (Mysore, 1-4 February 2015), I was originally only present as an observer. But when a Hindu lady speaker had addressed the social philosophy of the Gond tribe, I felt it necessary to give a fitting reply, as it was contrary to the whole aim and spirit of the [...]

February 4, 2015 Dr Koenraad Elst Archives, India 0

World Hindu Congress : Down with Despondency

World Hindu Congress : Down with Despondency

(The World Hindu Congress of 21-23 November 2014 in Delhi, an achievement by Swami Vigyananda, compares favourably with other similar initiatives, being more focused and free of compromise with secularism. It offered a taste of what an unfettered Hindu society in normal non-Nehruvian circumstances could be. One of the seven conferences was the Organizational Conference, [...]

December 25, 2014 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

koenraad Elst : How I did Not Become a Hindu

koenraad Elst : How I did Not Become a Hindu

Both Sita Ram Goel and Vamadeva Shastri (David Frawley) have written a book called How I Became a Hindu. I could never write such a book because I have deliberately made a choice not to identify myself as Hindu. In this article I will explain “why I am not a Hindu”. Leaving Christianity Before starting [...]

December 13, 2014 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

Hinduism and Paganism : The Christian challenge

Hinduism and Paganism : The Christian challenge

Numerous British and more largely Western neo-Pagans seek contact with Hinduism. They recognize a similarity, both positively and negatively, both in their own religion’s characteristics and in the misfortunes that have befallen it. The extermination in summer 2014 of all the Yezidis (Kurdish Pagans) on whom the Islamic State could lay its hands has reminded [...]

August 27, 2014 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights, Indigenous/Pagan Voice 0

The Modi government’s Hindu agenda

The Modi government’s Hindu agenda

Narendra Modi’s accession to power has not entirely ended the international campaign against him, witness the petition (with most signatures found to be fraudulent) to Barack Obama to cancel Modi’s planned visit to Washington. It was floated by the Coalition Against Genocide, a platform of several dozen Muslim organizations and some Communist coattails, many of [...]

August 18, 2014 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights 0

Sanskrit : A Language of ‘Controversy’

Sanskrit : A Language of ‘Controversy’

Some sixty to forty years ago, the Jan Sangh, precursor of the BJP, was 100% in favour of the replacement of English with a native language. Because the Constituent Assembly had opted (by a single vote) for Hindi rather than Sanskrit as the “link language”, it became a pro-Hindi party, but in their hearts many [...]

August 14, 2014 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights, Archives 0

William Dalrymple and the Caliphate

William Dalrymple and the Caliphate

William Dalrymple is right on the Caliphate’s details, but his liberal framework is wrong. On 13 July 2014, The Guardian published an opinion article by the well-known historian of Moghul India, William Dalrymple: “The ISIS demand for a caliphate is about power, not religion.” We have heard this tune numerous times, literally and in so [...]

July 16, 2014 Dr Koenraad Elst Analysis/Insights 0
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