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  • Fate versus Free Will, Bollywood Style

    Fate versus Free Will, Bollywood Style

    Is everything determined by Destiny or by our own choices ?…

  • Judging Medea

    Judging Medea

    Perhaps,it is not our place to judge or condemn another’s action…

  • From Oedipus To Yayati

    From Oedipus To Yayati

    We can shut our eyes and close our ears to it but that does not mean it doesn’t exist…

  • Secret of Tantra

    Secret of Tantra

    Tantra – a rather unfairly treated ritual form whose layers are very rarely unfolded with an unprejudiced mind…

  • Myth as History

    Myth as History

    Most stories,tales,epics are not necessarily backed by solid,verfiable fact…

  • Blood For Durga

    Blood For Durga

    Milk,yes;Butter,yes; but blood ! used for worship ? Why ?…

  • Frames of Reference

    Frames of Reference

    What we see,what we perceive…how much of it is true ? Who can tell ?…

  • Is Divorce an Indian word?

    Is Divorce an Indian word?

    In India,marraiges are forever.Or are they?…

  • Karmic Debt and Karmic Equity

    Karmic Debt and Karmic Equity

    Sometimes,even the right path may have unforseen consequences.But we still need to take it.After all,the rewards too,are spectacular…

  • The Clothes of Draupadi

    The Clothes of Draupadi

    The disrobing of Draupadi is horrifying not simply for the terrible act of humiliating a woman in public- it is what it signifies – the collapse of dharma…

  • Song of the Goat

    Song of the Goat

    What is it about a Tragedy that it remains imprinted on our minds far longer than any comedy or happy story does ?…