Homeschooling FAQ
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Our three children studied at home. Homeschooling as it is called was not very popular when our children were small and my wife and I did a lot of hectic activity trying to make it work for us. This activity…
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I Am That
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Read more: I Am ThatWhen you look at spiritual literature, it seems to me that, even though the message may be the same, different books seem to work for different people. ‘I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’ worked for me when I…
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Is there an Indian way of thinking?
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Read more: Is there an Indian way of thinking?This is the title of an interesting essay by A.K. Ramanujan, poet, scholar, linguist and translator. The main idea can be summed up with the following quote from the essay: “Cultures have overall tendencies — tendencies to idealise, and think…
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Four Seminars on Dharampal’s work
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Read more: Four Seminars on Dharampal’s work“We the educated elite of India are wary of any attempt to understand the Indian mind. . . . Deep within, we, the elite of India, are also acutely conscious of this highly elaborate structure of the Indian mind. We,…
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Jajmani System, Jatis and Castes
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Read more: Jajmani System, Jatis and CastesDr Harsh Satya talks about India’s traditional Jajmani system and its linkages with jatis and castes. The word Jajmani comes from Yajman which is linked to the practice of Yajnya. This video is recorded at the SIDH campus, Kempty, during…
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IGNCA-SIDH Dharampal centenary program
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Read more: IGNCA-SIDH Dharampal centenary programIt is heartening to see that there appears to be an awakening of interest and a recognition of the importance of Dharampalji’s work. The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) and SIDH are collaborating on a year-long program to…
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Rediscovering India – Preface
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Read more: Rediscovering India – Preface(The following is an abridged version of the Preface to the second edition written by Pawanji. Take a look…) Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, highly revered monk and founding Director (later Vice-Chancellor) of Tibetan Institute of Higher Studies, Sarnath, as well as…
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Rediscovering India – Excerpts
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Read more: Rediscovering India – ExcerptsI have been carefully going through the ‘Rediscovering India’ document before we send it for typesetting and printing. I started copying out paragraphs that I thought were hard-hitting and am now having trouble selecting 500 words for this blog post.…
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Rediscovering India
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Read more: Rediscovering IndiaAt SIDH we are republishing an out-of-print book, ‘Rediscovering India’, by Dharampalji. With a foreword by Chandra Shekharji, former Prime Minister of India, it is a book of essays and speeches (1956-1998) in which Dharampalji talks about a wide range…
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The Fourth Political Theory
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Read more: The Fourth Political Theory“The future world should be characterized by multiplicity; diversity should be taken as its richness and its treasure, and not as a reason for inevitable conflict; many civilizations, many poles, many centers, many sets of values on one planet and…
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Andheri Raat Ke Taare
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Read more: Andheri Raat Ke TaareSIDH wants to bring out books written in our languages that helps us to see India, it’s samaaj, it’s ways, it’s aesthetics from our indigenous perspective. ‘Andheri Raat Ke Taare’, which was out of print for a long time, is…
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Invisible systems and their visible effects
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Read more: Invisible systems and their visible effectsSIDH is going to publish ‘The White Sahibs In India’ (first published in 1937 and talked about here, here and here on this blog) by Reginald Reynolds in a month or two. I read the full book once and then…
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