On the ‘modernity of tradition’

(this post was written by Kyle on October 29, 2008, and it concerns hindu & india & Religion & Science)

From Tunku Varadarajan’s Fly Me to the Deity: “An unmanned spacecraft from India — that most worldly and yet otherworldly of nations — is on its way to the moon. For the first time since man and his rockets began trespassing on outer space, a vessel has gone up from a country whose people actually regard the moon as a god.”