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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: September 2014
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Thursday, September 18, 2014. Pointing a finger at secularists: A response to Teotonio de Souza. It is always a tragedy when an argument is misunderstood. Something of the sort seems to have happened when Teotonio de Souza, in his op-ed column in this paper (2September, 2014). Mounted a critique of my denunciation of the Goa Government’s Sant Sohirobanath project. With this understanding of the operation of Indian secularism, de Souza’s position is not surprising...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: Art, Gender, and Faith
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Friday, July 24, 2015. Art, Gender, and Faith. So profoundly has social media changed the ways in which we communicate and form ourselves that to declare that the world of social media has changed the manner in which we interact would be to state the obvious. Social media has given many of us the option to define ourselves in new ways, granting each of us access to resources that perhaps were scarcely imaginable even a decade ago. The images of Mary Magdalene as a. Of the...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: February 2015
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Modi’s Verbal Politics Made Flesh. 8221; to Christians, and a commitment in favour of freedom of religion. 8220;We cannot accept violence against any religion on any pretext and I strongly condemn such violence. My government will act strongly in this regard,” Modi is reported. The other statements that we should give closer attention to include the folowing: “[m]y government will not allow any religious group. The devil, as they say, is in th...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: June 2015
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Friday, June 26, 2015. Meeting Fathers in Foreign Lands. I had a similar experience when visiting the ongoing exhibition titled “ Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy. 8221;, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This second form is also important. The trouble with Goa Indica, however, is that it often stresses a Sanskritic and brahmanical past for Goa. These assertions are then used to justify a return to that imagined state of affairs. The truth, as alw...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: José Gerson da Cunha, his myths and histories: Rethinking Origin Myths in Goa IV
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. José Gerson da Cunha, his myths and histories: Rethinking Origin Myths in Goa IV. For some time now I have been revisiting the myth recounted by Narayan Kondiba Mane, a Dhangar shepherd from the district of Kolhapur in Maharashtra. The myth. The key to this question lies in the figure of the orientalist gentleman-scholar José Gerson da Cunha (1844-1900), who operated from Bombay in the nineteenth century. He never misses an opportunity of boosting ...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: July 2015
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Friday, July 24, 2015. Art, Gender, and Faith. So profoundly has social media changed the ways in which we communicate and form ourselves that to declare that the world of social media has changed the manner in which we interact would be to state the obvious. Social media has given many of us the option to define ourselves in new ways, granting each of us access to resources that perhaps were scarcely imaginable even a decade ago. The images of Mary Magdalene as a. Of the...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: May 2015
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Friday, May 29, 2015. Leading development as if people mattered. We need to discuss this whole Golf course thing …Isn't it a good time to introduce high end tourism in Goa? 8220;T hose people probably are squatters who have been there for a few generations. In the grand scheme they don't matter. As long as they are offered viable alternative places what does it matter J. 8220; Well, development must happen. It's inevitable…. On the recent events in the village of Tiracol.
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: October 2014
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Friday, October 31, 2014. The Moral Politics of Diwali. 8220; ek baras meiN ek baar hee jagti holi kee jwaala. Ek baar hee lagti baaji jalti deepoN kee maala. Duniya waaloN kintu kisi din aa madiraalay meiN dekho. Din meiN holi raat diwaali roz manaati madhushaala. But once a year do the flames of Holi rise. But once is the dice rolled and the garlands of lamps lit. Yet, come to the tavern people of the world and behold,. Where every day is Holi, a every night Diwali.
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: Seeing Christ in the lost
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Seeing Christ in the lost. As important as the individual figures in these scenes are to the larger canvas, quite naturally the tortured body of Christ receives special treatment by the artist. The viewer is invited to gaze at the brutalized and lifeless body of Christ and contemplate the suffering that, according to Christian tradition, Christ willingly undertook to save humanity. 8217;s oratorio Membra Jesus Nostri. Is that through his victory o...
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: April 2015
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Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant. Friday, April 17, 2015. Rethinking Origin Myths in Goa. Some months ago, I recollected an incident. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when some weeks after writing that column, I came across a scholarly essay titled “Muharram Processions and the Ethicization of Hero Cults in the Premodern Deccan,” by Hugh van Skyhawk, which featured in the book South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora. Parasarama, or Parasurama! However, ther...
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