Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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In Defence of the Buffalo
Can the word ‘evil’ be translated in Hindi or, for that matter, any Indian language?…
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The Promised Land
There is no map to the Promised Land, there is no brochure either or satellite images. Just faith…
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Vultures and the Sacred Jackass
What is most interesting about studying vultures and jackasses is to observe how humans have given adjectives to animals. We judge them and associate them with positive and negative traits. This varies with culture…
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The Constructions of Holy Books
The modern cosmopolitan urban Hindu often overlooks this history and these divisions perhaps because it is so much convenient to ‘unify the diversity’ of Hinduism through one book…
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Silent Support Staff
Often we forget the ‘horses’ who help us navigate through our daily lives…
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The Rise of the Temple
A short history of temple building in India reveals interesting little details…
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Rebirth of Surpanakha
Oral tales from Rajasthan take the Ramayana forward in a very unique way…
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The tale of two epics
A hypothesis that the Ramayana and Mahabharata were reactions to Buddhism…
