"Buck," if all of this is supposed to be an exercise in trying to guess whether you're drunk on really cheap tequila or soma, I'm gonna go with tequila.
I mean, the "Come back to the domes" bit is lame enough, but "Forward into the Vedic past" is really pushing it, even for an amateur Colbert clone. ________________________________ From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com" <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 5:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Cities.. . ..Live the Golden Age! This will lead us to question the role of textual authority in contemporary Hinduism and its uses as a way of forging new religious identities. If modern science as epistemological authority was amply used by Hindu reformers during colonial times to prove the universal value of Hinduism, how are the “Vedic” and the “scientific” articulated in contemporary discourses and practices? Participants will also be asked to investigate whether the attribution “Vedic” is always used in a “Hindu” context or whether it can be a purely commercial term used to sell the “exotic” and the “ancient” within India— as in the case of the Vedic City under construction by the Shri Infratech group in Greater Noida. Similarly, the conference will deal with the economy that is generated as these ideas spread. Besides the ideological dimension, commercial concerns seem to be at the heart of these new phenomena. “The attribution “Vedic” has important commercial implications that should be attentively examined. The Vedas are nowadays sold as a commercial item, in the form of printed texts, recorded mantras (CD, DVD), or as a packaged tourist destination (Vedic schools, Vedic meditations centres). “Vedic” forms of knowledge are also extensively commercialized: countless services (consultations, courses, stages) and products (Vedic horoscopes, Vedic remedies, Vedic ritual items, etc.) are sold through the web. Participants will then be asked to explore the social networks, the marketing strategies and the material supports used in this “Vedic economy”. A Lifestyle inspired by the Golden age of the Indian Civilization. Chandragupta Maurya ! Ashoka ! Reminiscent of the Golden Age is now a realty. Vedic City will be an Epic beginning to a new life. An Epic beginning to a new life, today we invite you to become a part of that mystical grandeur in a Vedic City near you. . .
