Category Archives: Question of the Week

Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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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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