Week 82 - Weekend Reading/Learning + Aesthetic

7/10/2020 - Modern Hindu Content

Welcome to Eternal Path Musings, a newsletter geared towards content that educates, informs, and inspires the Modern Hindu!

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This week we feature: weekend reading and an aesthetic!

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Reading Highlight: Weekend Reading

📚 The Flain has a great article here on 15 times that True Indology debunked lies from Devdutt Pattnaik (famous so-called “mythologist” who we covered in Issue 6).

📚 Suhag Shukla from the Hindu American Foundation has a great thread responding to new attacks (from the ever-so-tenacious bigot and missionary daughter-in-law Audrey Truschke) on the term “Hinduphobia” itself. Available in threadreader and twitter thread form, this thread directly refutes claims that Hinduphobia doesn’t exist. First tweet from thread available below:

Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but c'mon! In response to @HinduAmerican's #Hinduphobia glossary, a few South Asianists released a "manual" denying the existence of #Hinduphobia, thereby trafficking in it! -Thread-

hinduamerican.orgHinduphobia and Hindu Hate GlossaryHinduphobia or anti-Hindu hatred is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or discrimination against Hindus and Hinduism. Both have a tragically long history which continues to this day across the globe and are fueled by a range of factors, including: religious intolerance, religious exclusivism…

📚The “History Under Your Feet” substack is back with a great feature on the Telugu Hindu tradition of “Bonalu”, at this link. Below is an example of Bonalu festivities in the United States.

Aesthetic: Tamil Nadu Temple

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