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So, are people actually getting dumber?
It’s quick, flattering, incomplete, and it puts the problem in human nature, not in the systems shaping people’s lives. But is it true?
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Kanav Jain
Queerness and Jainism
Stop Using “Tradition” as a Shield for LGBTQ+ Exclusion
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Kanav Jain
Syādvāda in Modern Philosophy
Syādvāda provides a framework for understanding the complex nature of truth
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Kanav Jain
Aparigraha is About Anticapitalism
The lay-practice of aparigraha is not about owning less. It's about rejecting ownership.
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Kanav Jain
Jains Everywhere Must Stand With Palestinians
Actively Opposing the Zionist Project and Upholding Ahimsa and Anekantavada
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Kanav Jain
The Marginalization and Erasure of Jainism
Confronting a Neglected Past: A Historical and Cultural Exploration
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Kanav Jain
Why 'Anarchist Jainism' is as Redundant as 'Chai Tea'
Unlike many religions, Ascetic Jainism was built in absence of, and in opposition to, state power
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Kanav Jain
Autism, Careerism, and Cultural Pressures as a Jain Indian American
Breaking the Cycle of Internalized Ableism and Its Ties to South Asian American Mental Health Awareness
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Kanav Jain
Jain Amnesia: Complicity in Hindutva and the Fantasy of Protection
the community's reluctance to disavow Hindutva in its pursuit of Hindu adjacency reeks of a Faustian bargain
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Kanav Jain
Structural Ahimsa vs. Commodity Ahimsa
moving Jainism beyond Ethical Consumption towards Systemic Transformation
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Kanav Jain
Reclaiming Jainism's Radical Potential
A Subaltern Critique and the Emergence of Left Jainism and Jain Leftism
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Kanav Jain
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