The Relevance of Culture

 Posted on July 5, 2015  |  16 minutes  |  3291 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A conversation with an old friend of mine revealed to me that the word culture is too often associated only with religion and ritualism and dismissed as irrelevant. [Read More]
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Dialogues III

 Posted on February 13, 2010  |  12 minutes  |  2476 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Dear readers, I’ve finally started to shed my inertia and write properly again. Here is the next set of Dialogues we had. J: Just to clarify, was it the Old Testament which said the earth was flat? [Read More]
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Dialogues II

 Posted on August 21, 2009  |  34 minutes  |  7215 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

S: In response to your questions: What is relativism? It’s the philosophical position that all points of view are equally valid and that all truth is relative to the individual. [Read More]
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Dialogues I

 Posted on August 18, 2009  |  15 minutes  |  3105 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I have a friend who I found last September after nearly 9 years of no contact. We initially had no idea that we would become close again. [Read More]
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