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Ep 332: The Life and Times of Uma Chakravarti

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of a Strong Antidote to Religion

Buddhism is almost equivalent to secular humanism because there is no God in the Buddhism. If people have turned Buddha into a God that's the work of the followers it has nothing to do with the way the Buddha conceived of it. So I can see the logic of why the Buddha, why Ambedkar chooses Buddhism over anything else and even on the question of conversion I myself had some ambivalence case. Should you need to be converted? Gaylomwitt pointed out very succinctly to me that you know you can't exit one culture and religious ideology without actually having a strong antidote to it.

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