https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/04/ramachandra-guha-in-leuven-belgium.html
Koenraad Elst: Ramachandra Guha in Leuven, Belgium
Even in an age where physical meetings are no longer necessary for communication, it remains interesting to see the human face behind the pa...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-hindu-argues-circles-around.html
Koenraad Elst: A Hindu argues circles around Christianity
What Every Hindu Should Know about Christianity (Wilmington, Delaware, 2014) is a book by Kalavai Venkat, pen name of a compute...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/buddha-and-caste.html?showComment=1621447128923
Koenraad Elst: The Buddha and Caste
Indians and Westerners who know Buddhism through Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and other modern pamphlet literature, sometimes...
koenraad elstthe buddhacaste
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-zinal-conference.html?showComment=1409508836809
Koenraad Elst: The Zinal conference
On 23 to 29 august 2014, the European Union of Yoga organized its 41nd annual conference in Zinal, Switzerland. The village of Zina...
koenraad elstzinalconference
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/10/atheism-in-indian-philosophy.html?showComment=1380689461265
Koenraad Elst: Atheism in Indian philosophy
(In Cork, Ireland, on 20-22 September 2013, the British Friedrich Nietzsche Society organized its regular conference, featuring the book...
koenraad elstatheismindianphilosophy
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/buddha-and-caste.html?showComment=1621446606922
Koenraad Elst: The Buddha and Caste
Indians and Westerners who know Buddhism through Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and other modern pamphlet literature, sometimes...
koenraad elstthe buddhacaste
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-british-were-not-guilty-of.html?showComment=1372003583029
Koenraad Elst: The British were not guilty of Partition; somebody else was
The easiest way before an Indian audience to get hands clapping, is to accuse the British of the Partition of India. Try it for yourself ...
koenraad elstnot guilty
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-aryan-non-invasion-theory.html?showComment=1383238113575&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The Aryan Non-Invasion Theory
On the Indo-Eurasian Research List, a certain Touraj Daryaee announced that he was going to write something about the Iranian Homeland Theo...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2019/
Koenraad Elst: 2019
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/12/shaktatantra-conference-in-sanchi.html?showComment=1651055260406&m=0
Koenraad Elst: Shaktatantra conference in Sanchi
Buddhism was far away at this sacred place of Buddhism, where the very different approach of Shaktism was in focus. Very interesting confer...
koenraad elstconferencesanchi
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-british-were-not-guilty-of.html?showComment=1346495495928
Koenraad Elst: The British were not guilty of Partition; somebody else was
The easiest way before an Indian audience to get hands clapping, is to accuse the British of the Partition of India. Try it for yourself ...
koenraad elstnot guilty
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-case-of-christopher-wallis-tantrik_28.html?m=1
Koenraad Elst: The case of Christopher Wallis, the Tantrik
In the Indian media, I once saw a beginning politician who had been a bit presumptuous in a speech being denounced as a "prete...
koenraad elstthe casechristopherwallistantrik
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-pushyamitra-was-more-secular-than.html?showComment=1438174792994
Koenraad Elst: Why Pushyamitra was more "secular" than Ashoka
(Published as a chapter in K. Elst: Ayodhya, the Case against the Temple , Delhi 2003. A bad case of the political abuse of history concer...
koenraad elstsecularashoka
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/06/tantra-for-practitioner.html?showComment=1372686921862
Koenraad Elst: Tantra for the practitioner
Christopher D. Wallis, Oxford graduate in Comparative Religion and assistant professor of Sanskrit in Berkeley, treats us to a v...
koenraad elstfor thetantrapractitioner
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/10/hindu-noise-makers.html?m=1
Koenraad Elst: "Hindu noise-makers"
On the Yahoo Cybalist, devoted to Indo-European studies, I sent in the following reply to S. Kalyanaraman, who took exception to my review...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2019/03/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: March 2019
koenraad elstmarch
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2020/12/?m=1
Koenraad Elst: December 2020
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2011/04/questioning-mahatma.html?showComment=1305859943448
Koenraad Elst: Questioning the Mahatma (book review)
Mahatma Gandhi was a heartless and manipulative tyrant without the redeeming feature of political merit. On the contrary, his vision for Ind...
koenraad elstquestioningmahatmabookreview
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-european-view-of-indo-european.html?showComment=1545192775858
Koenraad Elst: The European view of the Indo-European Homeland
The European view of the Indo-European Homeland (Pragyata , December 2018) The present publication is an English translation...
koenraad elstthe europeanviewindohomeland
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2009/12/bjp-and-ayodhya-demolition.html?showComment=1260151702900&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The BJP and the Ayodhya demolition
On 6 December 1992, in the presence of BJP leader L.K. Advani, Hindu activists demolished the Babri Masjid, a mosque structure imposed on th...
koenraad elstbjpayodhyademolition
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/11/
Koenraad Elst: November 2018
koenraad elstnovember
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/04/george-thompson-as-case-study-in-racist.html?showComment=1335942633632
Koenraad Elst: George Thompson as a case study in racist Invasionism
On the internet discussion list of the Religion in South Asia (RISA) chapter of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), September 2011 sa...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2020/06/
Koenraad Elst: June 2020
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/buddha-and-caste.html?showComment=1621446844809
Koenraad Elst: The Buddha and Caste
Indians and Westerners who know Buddhism through Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and other modern pamphlet literature, sometimes...
koenraad elstthe buddhacaste
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/08/
Koenraad Elst: August 2010
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/07/guru-nanak-was-hindu.html?showComment=1278961783735
Koenraad Elst: Guru Nanak was a Hindu
In contemporary devotional pictures and posters of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), as seen in taxis and shops, the Guru is invariably shown as weari...
koenraad elstguru nanakhindu
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-i-did-not-become-hindu.html?showComment=1422985061582
Koenraad Elst: How I did not become a Hindu
Both Sita Ram Goel and Vamadeva Shastri (David Frawley) have written a book called How I Became a Hindu . I could never write such a...
koenraad elsthow idid notbecomehindu
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/hindu-survival-what-is-to-be-done.html?showComment=1337776817361&m=0
Koenraad Elst: Hindu survival: what is to be done
Some Hindus ask me, as a sympathizing outsider, if I have any advice for them when they want to revive their fortunes...
koenraad elstwhat isto behindusurvival
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/08/arya-tibetan-case-for-oit.html
Koenraad Elst: Arya-Tibetan case for the OIT
(Pragyata, 10 July 2018) The latest linguistic progress for the OIT In 2017, there has been a lot of jubilation in the Aryan Inva...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2011/10/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: October 2011
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/02/hindus-and-neo-paganism.html
Koenraad Elst: Hindus and Neo-Paganism
The late Ram Swarup (1920-98), definitely the most important Hindu philosopher of independent India's first half-cent...
koenraad elsthindusneopaganism
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/04/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: April 2012
koenraad elstapril
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-hatha-yoga.html?showComment=1422886806222
Koenraad Elst: The origins of Hatha Yoga
To whom does the discipline and doctrine, or "science", of yoga belong? Now that American entrepreneurial yoga experimenters try to patent t...
koenraad elstthe originshathayoga
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/07/guru-nanak-was-hindu.html?showComment=1323447643029
Koenraad Elst: Guru Nanak was a Hindu
In contemporary devotional pictures and posters of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), as seen in taxis and shops, the Guru is invariably shown as weari...
koenraad elstguru nanakhindu
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/11/vikas-swarup.html?showComment=1385429376373&m=0
Koenraad Elst: Vikas Swarup
In the framework of Europalia India, a string of institutions including my Alma Mater, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, hosts a s...
koenraad elstvikas
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/09/comparative-philosophy-scfa-25-years.html
Koenraad Elst: Comparative Philosophy: SCFA 25 years
The School On 6 September 2014, in the central auditorium of Antwerp University, within biking distance of my home, the Scho...
koenraad elstcomparativephilosophyscfayears
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/buddha-and-caste.html?showComment=1621446999761
Koenraad Elst: The Buddha and Caste
Indians and Westerners who know Buddhism through Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and other modern pamphlet literature, sometimes...
koenraad elstthe buddhacaste
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2019/09/yin-and-yang-not-so-equal.html?showComment=1578735743679
Koenraad Elst: Yin and Yang, not so equal
(A bstract for the 2019 conference of the Sophia Centre of Cultural Astronomy, UK, about "Light and Dark" , about the philosophy of the Y...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-sarna-case-study-in-natural-religion.html?showComment=1540649092799
Koenraad Elst: The Sarna: a case study in natural religion
(ca. 1999) Whatever one might have against the Christian missionaries, one cannot deny their enormous energy in map...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-concept-of-pakistan-in-vedas.html?showComment=1447392994877&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The concept of Pakistan in the Vedas
( Law Animated World , Hyderabad, 30 Oct. 2015) The three most famous sculptures from Mohenjo Daro, on the Sindhu/Indus...
koenraad elstthe conceptpakistanvedas
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-kozhikode-vedic-conference.html
Koenraad Elst: The Kozhikode Vedic conference
On 7-10 January 2014, a Vedic conference has been taking place at Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala, India. This is the town where Vasco da...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/11/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: November 2015
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-leipzig-workshop.html?showComment=1390049187508&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The Leipzig workshop
For some mysterious reason, I find myself penetrating a little bit deeper into the far part of Germany, the erstwhile German Democr...
koenraad elstleipzigworkshop
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/07/guru-nanak-was-hindu.html?showComment=1425984479697
Koenraad Elst: Guru Nanak was a Hindu
In contemporary devotional pictures and posters of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), as seen in taxis and shops, the Guru is invariably shown as weari...
koenraad elstguru nanakhindu
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/hindu-survival-what-is-to-be-done.html?showComment=1337454335897&m=0
Koenraad Elst: Hindu survival: what is to be done
Some Hindus ask me, as a sympathizing outsider, if I have any advice for them when they want to revive their fortunes...
koenraad elstwhat isto behindusurvival
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-british-were-not-guilty-of.html?showComment=1344183695353&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The British were not guilty of Partition; somebody else was
The easiest way before an Indian audience to get hands clapping, is to accuse the British of the Partition of India. Try it for yourself ...
koenraad elstnot guilty
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/10/eminent-historian-displeased-with.html
Koenraad Elst: Eminent historians displeased with the Ayodhya verdict
Romila Thapar, most eminent among India's eminent historians, protests against the Court verdict acknowledging the historical evidence that ...
koenraad elsteminenthistoriansayodhyaverdict
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2018/11/thoughts-on-armistice-day.html?showComment=1542798138440&m=0
Koenraad Elst: Thoughts on Armistice Day
It is presently 11 a.m. on 11 November 2018, one century after the armistice that ended the Great War, later renamed as World War 1. In Par...
koenraad elstthoughts onarmisticeday
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/05/reza-pirbhai-and-voice-of-india.html?m=1
Koenraad Elst: Reza Pirbhai and Voice of India
One article Meera Nanda quotes, and which she has also used as a source, is by Dr. Reza Pirbhai, Associate Professor of South-Asian Studie...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: 2015
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/03/no-more-khushwant-singh.html?showComment=1395646824825
Koenraad Elst: No more Khushwant Singh
At long last, shortly before he would turn 100, Khushwant Singh has gone. India loses a pleasant writer and frequently humorous p...
koenraad elstno moresingh
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-british-were-not-guilty-of.html?showComment=1343136266243
Koenraad Elst: The British were not guilty of Partition; somebody else was
The easiest way before an Indian audience to get hands clapping, is to accuse the British of the Partition of India. Try it for yourself ...
koenraad elstnot guilty
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/07/guru-nanak-was-hindu.html?showComment=1279356031952
Koenraad Elst: Guru Nanak was a Hindu
In contemporary devotional pictures and posters of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), as seen in taxis and shops, the Guru is invariably shown as weari...
koenraad elstguru nanakhindu
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/07/guru-nanak-was-hindu.html?showComment=1587941127539
Koenraad Elst: Guru Nanak was a Hindu
In contemporary devotional pictures and posters of Guru Nanak (1469-1539), as seen in taxis and shops, the Guru is invariably shown as weari...
koenraad elstguru nanakhindu
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2021/06/
Koenraad Elst: June 2021
koenraad elstjune
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/11/propagating-english-to-help-india.html?m=1
Koenraad Elst: Propagating English to help India advance?
(In the last days of October 2015, the India Ideas Conclave list saw a lively debate on the subject of India's link language. It started ...
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https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2011/03/ethnic-meaning-of-arya.html?showComment=1633969998675
Koenraad Elst: The ethnic meaning of "Arya"
In debates on the politically controversial term Arya , we keep hearing from Hindus and Buddhists that it only means "noble", as in the Budd...
koenraad elstmeaning ofethnicarya
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/04/far-right-and-dissolution-of-belgium.html?showComment=1274399382020&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The Far Right and the dissolution of Belgium
Foreign press correspondents in Brussels are telling their readers and viewers in the home country that the Flemish Far Right is clamouring ...
koenraad elstfar rightdissolutionbelgium
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2019/08/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: August 2019
koenraad elstaugust
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2022/07/?m=1
Koenraad Elst: July 2022
koenraad elstjuly
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-pushyamitra-was-more-secular-than.html?showComment=1438039164861
Koenraad Elst: Why Pushyamitra was more "secular" than Ashoka
(Published as a chapter in K. Elst: Ayodhya, the Case against the Temple , Delhi 2003. A bad case of the political abuse of history concer...
koenraad elstsecularashoka
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/06/tantra-for-practitioner.html?showComment=1371724999052
Koenraad Elst: Tantra for the practitioner
Christopher D. Wallis, Oxford graduate in Comparative Religion and assistant professor of Sanskrit in Berkeley, treats us to a v...
koenraad elstfor thetantrapractitioner
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-aryan-non-invasion-theory.html?showComment=1382970292844&m=0
Koenraad Elst: The Aryan Non-Invasion Theory
On the Indo-Eurasian Research List, a certain Touraj Daryaee announced that he was going to write something about the Iranian Homeland Theo...
koenraad elstaryannoninvasiontheory
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2016/08/interview-to-student.html?showComment=1473244822184&m=0
Koenraad Elst: Interview to a student of religion
(Interview given to a student of Religious Studies collecting material for her dissertation) 1. You have written that a Hindu simply i...
koenraad elstinterviewstudentreligion
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2019/06/genetic-proof-for-ait-look-again.html?m=1
Koenraad Elst: Genetic proof for the AIT? Look again.
Authorities on science and the scientific temper very wisely teach students never to use Wikipedia as a source: it is often amateurish and ...
koenraad elstfor thegeneticproofait
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2011/04/
Koenraad Elst: April 2011
koenraad elstapril
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-hatha-yoga.html?showComment=1295937227112
Koenraad Elst: The origins of Hatha Yoga
To whom does the discipline and doctrine, or "science", of yoga belong? Now that American entrepreneurial yoga experimenters try to patent t...
koenraad elstthe originshathayoga
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2022/04/?m=0
Koenraad Elst: April 2022
koenraad elstapril
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2015/12/st-thomas-and-anti-brahminism.html?showComment=1450962581092
Koenraad Elst: St. Thomas and Anti-Brahminism
St. Thomas and Anti-Brahminism (originally ca. 1994, posted at Bharat-Bharati on August 17, 2010 ) The true prophet...
koenraad elstthomasantibrahminism
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2016/04/interview-to-digital-swarajya.html?showComment=1460980592254
Koenraad Elst: interview to digital Swarajya
(interview by e-mail, Swarajya, 16 April, to questions by Shitanshu Shekhar Shukla) Q. Do you think the BJP is still in oppositi...
koenraad elstinterviewdigital
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2014/02/dominik-wujastyk-on-buddhist-element-in.html?showComment=1393695631998
Koenraad Elst: The Vienna conference: Dominik Wujastyk on the Buddhist element in the Yoga Sutra
At the conference on "Yoga in Transformation" (Vienna, September 2013), Prof. Dominik Wujastyk highlighted some less freque...
https://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2022/09/why-indo-europeanists-have-duty-to-face.html?m=1
Koenraad Elst: Why Indo-Europeanists have a duty to face the Out-of-India Theory
(Pragyata [on-line magazine from Delhi], 21 September 2022) Last week, after years of Corona intermezzo, the Indogermanische Gesellsch...
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