Nithin Sridhar
Practicing Hindu. Speaker. Author of Six Books. Director & Chief Curator @advaitaacademy. Former Editor @IndiaFactsOrg. Writes on Religion, Culture & Politics.
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@SaamaanyaJ A few comments: 1. Your statement 'Now, the Shruti is silent has A few Vidhi Nishedha Vakyas' is incorrect. Vidhi-Nishedha Vakyas is held as the very CORE of Veda by Mi...
1. Hindus have been continuously loosing ground in matters related to personal, family, and community beliefs and practices for the last two hundred years.
1. Why should one practice Dharma as revealed by Sruti and Smriti? Why should one live a Dharmika live? Manusmriti gives an interesting answer to this in Chapter 4.
1. In the quest to recover lost meaning, revive our knowledge traditions, and put Hindu discourse on the global map, I see many Hindu scholars and organizations trying to map Hindu...
1. On #GuruPurnima2022, I want to share this excerpt from my upcoming book, an English commentary on opening verses of #Manusmriti, tentatively titled 'Catuḥ Ślokī Mānava-Dharmaśās...
Gita vs Smritis 1. One argument one often hears from Hindus is, when we have Bhagavad Gita which also teaches Dharma, why do we need Smritis?
Adi Shankaracharya Bhagavadpada on the function of Shastras (particularly applicable to Dharmashastras): [Quote] The diversity of people's desires, attachments and so forth is ano...
1. Adi Shankaracharya at one place writes "asampradayavit murkhavat upekshaniya"- those who are not learned in the teaching tradition are to be ignored as fools.
1. Abortion remains Adharma irrespective of context because it involves preventing a Jiva who was about to take birth from doing so. However, how it practically plays out is compli...
@Vsrini_Raghavan @Lost_History1 Varna is not all about profession. Brahmanas can take up Kshatriya and Vaishya professions under certain conditions. But they must ideally follow th...
1. I watched #TheKashmirFiles yesterday evening and for me it is not just a movie about the past, but a movie about what could happen to Hindus, to our children & grandchildren in...
1. The term 'Artha' has a wide range of meanings including 'meaning', 'purpose', 'end', etc. However, in the context of Purusharthas, the purushartha of Artha has been often inter...