The March month is not really a nice month to travel – the beginning of summer heat starts getting you. However given our schedule, we squeezed out two days, where we could go out on excursion. Our choice was ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) temple at Mayapur. Mayapur is situated in Nawadwip. Nawadwip is [...]
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Vishwakarma Puja
Vishwakarma Puja is a big occasion of celebration in the industrial belt. This comes every year on Sept 17th. The festival celebrating the God of Industrial Craft ie. Vishwakarma is an important but less known dimension of Bengal. This time I attended one such ceremony in the main telephone exchange at Asansol. In the industrial [...]
Indus River
A version of this essay was published in the Encyclopedia of World Trade published by ME Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, New York. Indus River (Sindhu) © Anup Mukherjee The Indus River rises in southwestern Tibet, and circling around different mountains, and running a course of 2735 kilometers, finally drains into Arabian Sea near Karachi (Sind, Pakistan). [...]
Modern Hinduism
Modern Hinduism © Anup Mukherjee i3pep.org [A version of this (somewhat extended) exposition was published in the Encyclopedia of Religion and War (Routledge)] Hinduism in modern times has undergone tremendous reformist changes and has tended to focus on peace rather than war. Though there has not been any scriptural development in Hinduism in relation to [...]
Religion, Food and Bengal
I find it strange of how people react to food vis-a-vis their religion. Most of this strange thing is related to methods and reasons for taking/not-taking non-veg food – though not restricted to that alone. In India, for non-veg, Hindus prefer the ‘jhatka’, while the Muslims prefer the ‘halal’. I am told this is related [...]
Hinduism in Modern Times
Hinduism in Modern Times © Anup Mukherjee, i3pep.org (Nov, 2003) Hinduism in modern times is reflection of continuity and of progressive changes that occurred in its various traditions and institutions during the 19th and 20th centuries. By eighteenth century many ills had crept into it- superstition, social obscurantism, rigid rituals, tyrannical polytheism and abominable rites [...]
