Puranas introduce us to the classical Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and their spouses — goddesses Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati…
Hindus as it doesn’t comply with their preconceived notions of what god and religion should be…
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophy being presented in the middle of a battleground…
Published on 8th July, 2018, in Mid-day. In Hindu mythological stories narrated in the Puranas, …
By the time the Upanishads were composed, 2,500 years ago, there was a familiarity with the Gangetic Plain…
However, when we remove the Gita from the Mahabharata we miss out on the context. And so, miss out much of the learnings…
How many of us know that the Indian Parliament’s circular shape was inspired by a Yogini temple? How many of us have been told the story from the Mahabharata of Sulabha … (or) the story from Yoga Vasishtha of Chudala?…
The concept of 10 diggapalas reached its final form about a thousand years ago when grand Hindu temples of stone started being built across India. But the thought can be traced to the Gangetic plains where Vedic yagna was being performed 3,000 years ago…
The villain in Hindu narratives is not evil but is just someone frightened and clinging to wealth, power and throne…
A leader is appointed by the people, from the people, and for the people… However, his success depends on whether he is aligned to wisdom…
We can safely say that sport in India began in both agricultural communities as well as martial communities…
In Hinduism, God is not a judge and so feminism is not about judging men…
In the Tamil epics, we see three kinds of women: the woman who has relationships with many men, the woman who has a relationship with one man, and the woman who has relationships with no man…
Spirituality is kept out of all rational conversations because we still cling to 19th century definitions of it…
Not everyone embraced the philosophy ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbhakam.’ Here’s why…
A thousand years ago, India was very different from what it is today. North India had yet to face significant conquest by Muslim warlords from Central Asia…