Monthly Archives: April 2010

Karma and Our Actions in the Cosmic World

Sunday, April 18, 2010

An interesting thing happened to me recently.  On Friday night, I was getting ready and holding a mirror up with my left hand.  Being the clumsy person I am, I dropped the mirror, which broke into pieces on the ground and gashed my right hand on the way down.  As I ran to UHS, worrying [...]

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Questions from Students at the Divinity School

Friday, April 16, 2010

This week’s Swadharma discussion will focus on questions brought to us by Julie, Maytal and Willie, three students at the Harvard Divinity School who are doing a project on Hinduism this semester.
Their questions are designed to make us think critically about our experience as Hindus in America (which, coincidentally, is one of the purposes of [...]

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(How) does history matter?

Friday, April 2, 2010

Sid and I attended a lecture-demonstration yesterday by the Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna, titled “The Evolution of Ragas”. I loved it, both for TMK’s virtuosity as a performer and for his erudition and knowledge of the history of South Indian classical music. His talk explored the long history of the performance of classical music in [...]

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