Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator

2009

  • Decoding Lakshmi

    Decoding Lakshmi

    Through the concept of Lakshmi we understand how ancient Indians understood wealth…

  • A Mythic Inheritance

    A Mythic Inheritance

    Mythology is not about gods killing demons…

  • Ganesha’s measuring scale

    Ganesha’s measuring scale

    Three times around whose world? Yours or mine?…

  • This was Ravan too

    This was Ravan too

    Ram atoned for the sin of killing Ravan. Why?…

  • The Context of the Mahabharata

    The Context of the Mahabharata

    To understand the Mahabharata we have to appreciate the Ramayana and to appreciate both we need to appreciate the Vedas…

  • Mythic Evolution

    Mythic Evolution

    So did man evolve from animals? Why?…

  • Hands of Jagannath

    Hands of Jagannath

    A deity without hands, feet, eyelids, lips or ears, but an eternal smile celebrating the imperfection of human existence…

  • Butter or Blood

    Butter or Blood

    The similarity between the apparently dissimiliar Bhagavata Krishna and the Mahabharata Krishna…

  • The Book of Kings

    The Book of Kings

    The Shahnamah is the great epic of Iran that tells the magical tales of kings who ruled Persia before the advent of the Arabs…

  • Kal Bhairav’s dog

    Kal Bhairav’s dog

    What does the dog represent in Hindu mythology that renders it inauspicious?…

  • Lakshmi’s Owl

    Lakshmi’s Owl

    Is this mysterious companion of the goddess, her twin elder sister, Alakshmi, goddess of strife?…

  • Answer the question, Vikramaditya!

    Answer the question, Vikramaditya!

    The Vikram & Vetal Method of Training’ is based on a collection of Sanskrit tales known as Vetal-pachisi, the twenty five tales of the ghost…

  • My Work as Chief Belief Officer

    My Work as Chief Belief Officer

    Chief Belief Officer was a designation created by the Future Group just to draw attention to the value of ‘belief’ in business…

  • The Axe of Parshuram

    The Axe of Parshuram

    The priest who gave up his peaceful ways and became a warrior…

  • Black gods and White gods

    Black gods and White gods

    Why Krishna is blue, not black….and why Kali when domesticated becomes white…

  • On Krishna’s chariot stands Shikhandi

    On Krishna’s chariot stands Shikhandi

    Westernization has not changed bedroom habits; it has simply led to an embarrassed denial of our sacred scriptures…

  • Proactive Garuda

    Proactive Garuda

    A good worker is one who anticipates …not one who reacts…

  • Love for Baldur

    Love for Baldur

    He was the gentlest of Viking gods in whose memory people kiss under the mistletoe…