Madhu Purnima Kishwar, Founder and Editor, Manushi, A Journal about Women & Society
- Madhu Purnima Kishwar is the founder and editor of MANUSHI, a journal about women and society.
- She is a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and a national professor at the Indian Council of Social Science and Research from 2017 to 2020.
Podcast
Overview
In this episode of The Brand Called You, Madhu Purnima Kishwar, the founder and editor of MANUSHI journal, discusses key insights from her studies of Indic faith traditions and civilizational studies. She touches on her journey from academic scholarship to social activism. From upholding the truth despite political costs as a “truth-winger” and “factarian”, to the open acceptance of diversity in Hindu Dharma, she shares her experiences. She highlights the situation in Hinduism today, expressing concerns about its “endangered” state she calls for reinventing Hindu wisdom to stand up for a safe space for Dharma to prosper.
00:32- About Madhu Purnima Kishwar
- Madhu Purnima Kishwar is the founder and editor of MANUSHI, a journal about women and society.
- She is a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and a national professor at the Indian Council of Social Science and Research from 2017 to 2020.
- She’s the author of 14 books and several papers and a TV personality.
14:35- What role do you think these traditions play in promoting interfaith harmony and understanding?
- Sanatana Dharma’s texts engage with the origin of the universe, the placement of stars etc – coming up with reasonably scientific answers, without boundaries or limitations.
- Accepting others despite differences comes spontaneously and naturally in Sanatana Dharma – allowing enormous variations in family structures, conflict resolution mechanisms etc.
- There is no sense of otherness – even Hindu rulers gave full freedom to pursue paths to minorities like Jews, and Parsis.
23:10- What future direction do you foresee for the understanding of Indian civilisations and faith traditions, especially for the younger generation?
- We are at a point where demography is destiny, and Hindus are truly an endangered species, living amidst the ruins of Hindu civilization with severely damaged roots.
- Hindu Dharma is a different ecosystem and has no place for divisive party politics that has torn asunder every society by splitting and dividing people into majority and minority vote banks.
- Hindu Dharma cannot survive in the shadow of ideologies that don’t believe in coexistence but in decimation, humiliation and genocide.
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- Madhu Purnima Kishwar is the founder and editor of MANUSHI, a journal about women and society.
- She is a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and a national professor at the Indian Council of Social Science and Research from 2017 to 2020.
- She’s the author of 14 books and several papers and a TV personality.
