As the executive committee chair of Amsterdam South East, a district with almost 95.000 inhabitants and 170 nationalities and cultures, I welcome the festival of Holi! Since my childhood I have been celebrating this festival with its vibrant colors. The ritual starts by lighting up the bonfire one day before the day of Holi. My […]
Victor A. van Bijlert (ret.) was a lecturer in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The nineteenth-century Hindu modernity, it is argued, sought both individual flourishing and collective emancipation from Western domination. For the first time Hinduism began to be constructed as a religion […]
In the past few decades Āyurveda has gained recognition and popularity all around the globe. It is deemed to be a form of therapy and a system of ancient medicine that originated in India. This perception, although correct, is only partially true because Āyurveda is much more than that. To understand the basics of any […]
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