[Book extract] Many of the English-speaking Hindus came to accept the British evaluation of Hinduism, in a kind of Stockholm syndrome.
...Full Story[Book excerpt] She plays the trick on him in order to exert power over him as he had exerted power over her, to put him in danger of being raped just as his absence had put her in danger of being raped.
...Full Story[Book Extract] As if speaking back to Kautilya's Arthashastra, Vatsayana ends up establishing a code of accepted sexual violence.
...Full StoryIt takes a certain kind of religion in thrall of politics to turn the Bhagavad Gita, a book about war and peace, into a bible for pacifism.
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