Introduction

Hello all,

First of all apologies, for the delay. Having grown up as a kid around various practices and customes unique to this land with several religious and spiritual dimensions to it, I would like to explore the underlying philosophies of these practices. Hence my work in the area in a way will focus on understanding these aspects, weather these practices are just mere traditional customs or but more worthwhile deeds benefiting one and all. For this I would like to get my self equipped with the substantial knowledge as to advocate the cause. For this I beleive that Chinthana is the best platform for me to start of with my ideas of going about this process. In the longer run I would like to work for the similar purpose with better clarity when it comes my vision and direction. I would like to go back to the ancient scriptures and understand the underlying essences of the work not from mere intrepretations alone but to rework on the frame not just on those provided by these previous works alone.This understanding I believe would help us to bring out these philosophies confined within boundaries without reaching out to the mankind beyond aspects like religion, caste etc. This would not be entirely possible for the time being as I m not qualified enough to carry out this process. In this dream project of mine I might not be able to work on everything i wish to, but would like to produce quality in whatever, be it single piece of research I don t mind dedicating my lifetime for the cause. This in turn I believe would make us think and look at things differently facilitating more research of the kind. Chinthana is a platform for me, not only to put across my ideas but more than that to learn from like minded people with similar interests in understanding the thoughts from the roots our ancestors. In this process I hope good quality knowledge is generated from the interactions with one another. I hope to learn and acquire knowledge from all my friends.As I look up to this exciting journey with all you guys , with hope and a lot of expectations I would like to wish all my fellow contributors all the best with their efforts to understand ' Indian Thought- Cinthana'.

Hi everyone
I'm one of the late joiners or the lazy one you may all say. I joined chintana with a thought to put across all my observations of people from different parts of india, as i have been travelling a lot. though the culture is different evrywhere the people somehow hold some basic similarity in their way of living , thinking and expressing. what i have found is that the generation that is old ahave this simple saying that kids of now a days have gone far beyond values n culture n forgotten to respect the olders and elders.... whereas if u consider the ones in middle they hang somewhere in middle they can't give up their culture inherited from their parents nor can they ignore the demands of their children of mordern days. and the youngest of all generation they don't disrespect what their older generations follow , its just that they want to do things differently. i feel i being one of them, is struggling to do the same; infact all of us are trying our best.
now u would wonder where is the psychology here, i find its there u jus need to peep deeper or jus hear all that u have been eavasdropping. i mean have u seen a corporate lady going to office attired in a office suit all westren but still putting sindoor, n some bangals because she is married. its jus like western where they look for the ring we look for these signs. i jus want to say however we turn westernised deep down the indeginous indian thrives... jus got to look in.
thnx for reading
NEHA