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विभिन्न मतों और संस्कृतियों में मासिक-धर्म से जुड़ी मान्यताएँ
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विभिन्न मतों और संस्कृतियों में मासिक-धर्म से जुड़ी मान्यताएँ

Nithin Sridhar- March 18, 2017

दुनियाँ के हर मतों और सभ्यताओं में मासिक-धर्म किसी न किसी प्रकार की अपवित्रता से अवश्य जुड़ा हुआ है। Read More

Sabarimala Debate: How Equality discourse is being used to undermine Adhyatmic practices
Archives, Rights (Discrimination & Appeasement)

Sabarimala Debate: How Equality discourse is being used to undermine Adhyatmic practices

Nithin Sridhar- September 3, 2016

It is important to note that, if campaigns like #RightToPray were to succeed it would destroy both the temple traditions and the Dharmic framework that ... Read More

#ReadyToWait: A campaign to reclaim Hindu temples and traditions
Archives, Rights (Discrimination & Appeasement)

#ReadyToWait: A campaign to reclaim Hindu temples and traditions

IndiaFacts Staff- August 31, 2016

A group of women devotees from Kerala have started a new campaign #ReadyToWait, asserting how devotees of the Sabarimala temple understand and respect the temple ... Read More

Views of Menstruation in Religions and Cultures around the world
Archives, Indology

Views of Menstruation in Religions and Cultures around the world

Nithin Sridhar- April 19, 2016

Menstruation is associated with impurity in one or the other form among most of the world’s religions and cultures. Read More

Science, Secularism and Saturn
Archives, Commentaries

Science, Secularism and Saturn

Ashish Dhar- February 4, 2016

In Hindu mythology, Saturn is easily the most difficult planet to propitiate. It symbolizes death, disease, poverty and all that we abhor in life. Read More