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From an Historian’s Notebook: How to Be a Person with a Voice

But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be of very different origins, and the Baghdadi Jews and Syrian Christians bear the same name as Muslims from the area which is now Syria and Iraq; I had a colleague with my surname from Romania, which of course was once a part of the Ottoman Empire, and I have never been anywhere near Syria or Iraq

Benjamin Zachariah April 7, 2023

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From an Historian’s Notebook: Straw Men

A slow process of acclimatisation to the realities of Hindutva has been underway for some time now. There have been bandwagon jumpers and opportunists, there have been cruder brutes who seem to enjoy the sense of power associated with killing, maiming or raping for an allegedly higher cause. But there are also sophisticates with an education, and with the requisite RSS training (even if it has hitherto been polite to hide it if you have aspirations to intellectualism) who are willing openly to serve the saffron cause, and have been doing so for some time.

Benjamin Zachariah February 1, 2023

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Christmas is not all About Jesus

Sir James George Frazer notes that in time, the Churches in Egypt and Asia Minor began to celebrate the birth of Jesus on 6 January. The practice went on until somewhere towards the end of the 3rd century or the beginning of the 4th century, when the Western Church fixed 25 December as the official day to celebrate the birthday of Jesus.

Sacaria Joseph January 6, 2023

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Leap of Faith

God asks Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac in His honour. Abraham is at a loss; he does not understand how a nation can emerge out of Abraham without the survival of his son.

Sacaria Joseph July 18, 2022

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Ekadashi: An Intersection of the Spiritual and the Scientific

To ensure the proper functioning of the digestive system, the Vedic tradition advocates periodic cleansing of the system by fasting on every eleventh day of the lunar cycle.

Sacaria Joseph March 23, 2022

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From an Historian’s Notebook: How to Be a Person with a Voice

From an Historian’s Notebook: Straw Men

Christmas is not all About Jesus

Leap of Faith

Ekadashi: An Intersection of the Spiritual and the Scientific

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