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The Scientific Significance of Shivling

Home » News » Opinion » The Scientific Significance of Shivling9-MIN READLast Updated: February 19, 2023, 10:00 ISTDanish scientist Niels Bohr’s scientific research suggests that molecules are made up of atoms, which consist of protons, neutrons, and electrons, all of which play a key part in the composition of ShivlingShivling is the metaphorical embodiment of Lord Shiva. It was described by Maharishi Veda Vyasa as a human understanding of the merger of Brahma and Jeev.
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Book Review| A Never Ending Conflict: Episodes from Indic Resistance

Amit Agarwal's new book is a collection of five stories that are almost forgotten. This assortment of erased slices of history provides a multi-faceted account of Bharat's history from 326 BCE, beginning with Alexander and concluding with the creation of Bangladesh After the success of a well-researched book on Indian mediaeval history, Swift Horses, Sharp Swords: Mediaeval Battles which Shook India, author Amit Agarwal has launched his second book, A Never-Ending Conflict.
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Gujarat Cabinet: Small Screen, Big Picture

The ruling BJP has won the recently concluded and much talked about Gujarat assembly elections with a whopping vote share of 52.52 per cent, winning 156 seats out of 182 seats in a seventh successive streak. Sailing on an anti-incumbency ride, BJP has turned the mandate into pro-incumbency through well-orchestrated booth management and minute social engineering.
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How AAP's Rajendra Pal Gautam is maligning Buddhism by using mass conversion for political ends

The whole conversion plan appears to be an act of social engineering to create a new voter base favouring AAP which might be later converted to another religion like Islam or Christianity Rajendra Pal Gautam, AAP MLA and minister in Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet, is in the news for all the wrong reasons after his video of participating in the mass conversion of 10,000 Hindus went viral on social media.
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OPINION | Why AAP, Arvind Kejriwal Can't Make a Dent in BJP’s Citadel Gujarat With 'Rewadis'

The pattern is set: when the election season is around the corner, it is time for the political pundits of “Lutyens’ Delhi” to first declare the election as the “test of indomitability and credence of PM Modi”, and then cherry-pick any issue or parameter—from the comforts of their air-cooled chambers—that might go against Modi.
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Udaipur Killing: Time is Ripe for Muslim Clerics to Issue Fatwa Against Blasphemy

In response to the barbaric murder of an Udaipur tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, by two Muslim men, Hazrat Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, general secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), gave an interesting statement. On the face of it, he criticised the killing, calling it a “brutal attack on a poor man” by “some non-ethical minds”. But when one looks at the finer points of the statement, it becomes obvious that this was a conditional criticism.
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Past and prejudice: Manusmriti is neither anti-Dalit, nor pro-Brahmin

Slavery not only affects people financially and physically but also handicaps them intellectually. One of the most serious consequences of slavery is that it degrades and corrupts the ruled culturally and civilisationally. Generations of people are made subservient, both physically as well as culturally.
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Love Jihad: Greatest contributor to Islamic conversion for millennia

New Delhi: Another girl, Nikita Tomer, was assassinated in broad daylight by a jilted jihadist Tauseef in Ballabhgarh, Haryana, in October 2020. For us, it was just another event, and making it a communal or Love Jihad issue is inappropriate. Nikitas are for being hounded by Muslim men, pursued down to campuses and market areas, and seduced under the guise of love to convert to Islam in the name of love, which is actually Jihad.
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