Swami Vivekananda, Indian culture and the charge of male chauvinism

Yesterday (03-Jan-2013) scores of Indians were pained by the way ‘The Hindu’ presented an article of pop-psycho-social analysis by a sociologist by name Sanjay Srivastava. Titled ‘Taking the aggression out of masculinity’, the article in a typical western way of looking at Indian society finds Indian culture as deficient and thus contributing to the sexual crimes. The author makes the following diagnosis in the article: A great deal of neglect of masculinity as an object of study lies in the celebratory...

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