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A beautiful verse on Kṛṣṇa

Friday, October 15, 2010

This is a gorgeous verse on Kṛṣṇa, in a style that I’ve never seen before. I found it in Michael Coulson’s Teach Yourself Sanskrit (which is a good heavy introduction to the language, but no substitute for personal instruction ), and I was immediately struck by its unusualness of description.
mand(r)a-kvāṇita-veṇur ahni śithile vyāvartayan [...]

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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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