One of the members of my extended family has a young teenage son who is faced with the choice all middle class kids face in India – the choice between science, arts or commerce streams after their 10th standard board exams. I would like to make a pitch for encouraging your kids to choose the […]
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Teach Religion in Schools – Here’s why
The philosopher I was most inspired by, when I was young, Bertrand Russell, would turn in his grave if he was to read this blog. But he himself would have wanted me to have a mind of my own. I will, in this article, be making a case for religious education in schools. I am […]
Should the Doctrine of Karma be taught in Schools?
There is a sentence in the classic work, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon which describes the use of spirituality and religion in preserving law and order. The sentence is as follows: The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally […]