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Educated urban Indians under 35 are reading the Gita and Upanishads not as religion but as philosophy — a selective intellectual recovery of Hindu texts.
By Thoughtful India Staff||4 min read
Plans for the world's largest Hindu temple in Bihar, modeled on Cambodia's Angkor Wat, drew devotion and doubt in equal measure. The story behind the plan.
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On Dussehra, while Ravana's effigies burn across India, some communities in Madhya Pradesh worship the 10-headed king as a god — here's why.
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From the Jewish peyot to the Sikh kesh to the sadhu's full beard — why four faiths treat facial hair as a matter of devotion, and how differently they mean it.
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A WikiLeaks cable quoted Rahul Gandhi telling the US ambassador that radicalised Hindu groups may pose a bigger threat than Islamist terrorists. The fallout.
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