संवाद # 62: Pankaj Saxena on problem with Hindu society & way forward | Nupur Sharma | Kanhaiya Lal

Pankaj Saxena is Co-Founder, Bṛhat and Director, Cultural Research, Bṛhat. He is an author who writes on Hindu temples, Indian art, literature, history and culture. He is also deeply interested in cultural anthropology, evolutionary biology and ecology. He has visited more than 600 ancient Hindu temples on his temple trails.

0:00 Islamic & Hindu society
7:25 Hindus don’t have a sense of who they are
9:35 Shatrubodh & Swayambodh
12:32 Philosophical differences with Buddhism & Prophetic monotheism
16:15 Buddhism can be competitor of Hinduism but it’s not enemy
20:52 Weakness of Buddhism & Islamic conquests
23:37 Strength of Hinduism - Decentralised religiosity
27:30 Anand Coomaraswamy on how Hinduism survived Islamic conquests
29:30 Islam is antithetical to Hinduism
31:04 Judaism transformation into a non-missionary religion
32:10 Prophetic monotheism - It’s not just limited to religion
36:39 European Enlightenment & secularisation of Christian society
40:36 Subtle conversion of society in the garb of Universal values
42:52 Swami Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand & Aurobindo’s contribution
48:05 The craze for unity with Muslims before & after partition
52:06 Sitaram Goel & Ram Swarup’s contribution in awakening Hindu consciousness
54:32 Why Ram Swarup is one of the greatest Hindu philosophers
59:41 Revival of Hindu awakening
1:05:04 What’s the way forward? What’s the solution?