Dr. Subhash C. Sharma
Author info.: http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/
Email: [email protected]
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Links to Dr. Sharma's Internet webpages on social and philosophical issues:
Is it some kind of fossil or a rock (Dinosaur fossils in India?)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/dino-egg.html
On the origins of curry or kaddy
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/kaaddnaa-curry.html
A roadside flowerbed
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/flowerbed.html
Fun with computers
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/computers.html
The myth of brahmins discouraging education and literacy for non-brahmins long ago
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/caste_discrimination-myth.html
Discriminatory policies, practices and attitudes
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/discriminations.html
Why has India stopped producing great thinkers and philosophers?
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/philosopher.html
Not everyone and everything is same or equal to Brahman (God) in Advaita:
Brahman according to Samkara's Advaita
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/brahman_absolute.html
Man's place in the world and his shared responsibility
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/human-responsibility.html
What should be the core message of religion?
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/religion-message.html
On the ethics and morality
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/ethics_morality.html
Ambition, reality and jibes
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/ambition.html
Hindu Caste System & Hinduism: Vedic vocations (Hindu castes) were
not related to heredity (birth)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/_caste.html
In pursuit of clean and hygienic surroundings
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/slum.html
Is formless God the nirguna Brahman?
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/nirguna-saguna.html
Sudra in the Purusha Sukta
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/purusha_sukta-sudra.html
Brahmin priest from a sudra, dalit or scheduled caste
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/dalit_becomes_brahmin.html
The origin of Hindu castes
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/caste_origin.html
Equality, peace and harmony in a pluralistic society and myth about the caste system
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/equality.html
Religion and caste in government
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/nonsecularism.html
How old are the Vedas and who can read them?
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vedas.html
Where did the Vedas originate?
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vedas-origin.html
Vedic view on sorcery, magic, worthless worship and astrology
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sorcery-astrology.html
Vrata or the vow ("fasting")
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vrata_fasting.html
A temple shelter for women and children
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/temple_shelter.html
Gyana, Karma and Bhakti
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/gyana_karma_bhakti.html
Compatibility of a text with the Srutis
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sruti_compatibility.html
Signifying a deity through attributes
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/deity.html
The origin of the elephant image for Ganesha
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/ganesha.html
Hindu tradition of honoring animals and nature
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/honoring_nature.html
Theistic and non-theistic Hindu philosophies
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/aastika_nastika.html
Misconceptions about Hinduism
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/misconceptions.html
Qualities for a brahmin -- the story of Satyakama
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/brahmin-qualities.html
Upanayanam: Dvija (Twice born) and Yagyopavit (Sacred thread)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/upanayanam.html
Economic disparity among brahmins and the reverse discrimination in jobs
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/brahmin_discrimination.html
Shantanu�s story in the Mahabharata
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/shantanu_story.html
Infiltration of casteist ideas into Ramayana and Mahabharata
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/epic_infiltration.html
The tragic heroes of Mahabharata
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/tragic_heroes-mahabharata.html
Shiv-ling and Agni worship (yajna)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/agni.html
Timeless traditions, expressions and symbols
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/customs.html
Sudershan-chakra etc.: Early sources of inspiration
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sudershan.html
The cost of learning: the parable of Yagnavalkaya's cattle
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sruti_learning.html
Sanskrit and the Sruti
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sanskrit_sruti.html
Use of foreign words in Sanskrit
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sanskrit_foreign_words.html
Hindu caste system & Democracy
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/caste.html
Manu, smriti and Manu's medical paradox
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/manu_smriti.html
The myth about Manusmriti
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/manusmriti_myth.html
Vedic hymns on the practice of medicine
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vedic_physicians.html
Significance (meaning) of Hindu and Hindu dharma (Hinduism)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/hindu_hinduism.html
BRAHMAN (God) in Hinduism
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/brahman.html
Worship and prayer according to Vedas
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vedic_deity.html
An example of external worship
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/external_worship.html
Krishna and Brahman
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/krishna_brahman.html
Gita as the multifaceted text
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/gita.html
Essence of the Ramayana
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/ramayana.html
Symbolism in the Ramayana
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/ramayana_symbolism.html
Karma, Suffering and the Message to Arjuna
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/karma.html
Eight avataar and their evolutionary significance
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/eight-avataar.html
Misquoting religious texts to support casteism and rituals and oppose widow-remarriage
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/misquoted-texts.html
The roots of the word Dravid
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/dravid.html
Issues involving ancient Hindu women
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/women.html
Cremation and its origin in Hinduism
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/cremation.html
Niyoga system of fertilization
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/niyoga_birth.html
Going bullish with animal power
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/animal_power.html
Solution to the Temple - Mosque dispute
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/temple-mosque.html
Karva Chauth and its social significance
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/karva-chauth.html
Feminine health and sexuality issues in India
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/feminine_issues.html
Case against legalizing the prostitution (sex-trade)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sex-trade.html
Environmental pollution due to overcrowding and fewer resources
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/environmental_pollution.html
Improving the sanitation situation in India
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/sanitation_india.html
Aiding the society as a janitor (bhangi)
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/dalit.html
Vedanta Sutra and the Vedanta
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vedanta.html
Vaisesika or the philosophy of Atomistic Pluralism
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vaisesika.html
The Purva Mimamsa philosophy
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/purva_mimamsa.html
Yoga and the Yoga philosophy
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/yoga.html
Inter-relatedness of Brahmanical (Vedic) philosophies
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/brahmanical_philosophies.html
The doctrines of Saivism and Saktism
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/saivism-saktism.html
Philosophies of Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, Vallabha, Caitanya, Bhaskara and Yadavaprakasa
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/vaisnava-philosophies.html
Conflict between Religionist and Materialist philosophies
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/religionist-materialist.html
Believers, religious people and the peace prayer
http://www.geocities.com/lamberdar/peace-prayer.html