‘Religion and Secularism’ Archives
TEACHING PLURALISM AND TOLERANCE
Building on Our Own Traditions “Aap Hindu ho ya Muslim?” (Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?) It was an innocent question asked by Salma,* a pretty ten-year-old girl studying in a village school in the outskirts of Jaipur. She addressed it to Naren, a young college student and aspiring journalist, who accompanied me to Jaipur as part of [...]
Need I belong to only one religion?
Introduction Religion and secularism are both hot topics of discussion in India today. With rare exceptions, commentators on all sides of the debate in India, suffer from a general malady – that of using Western terms, categories and worldviews to understand an Eastern society. We explore how adopting Western worldviews and nomenclature has [...]
