Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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The Right to be a Philistine
It’s a pattern that is so repetitive that you realize it has become a trap – for both those who mock and those who celebrate philistinism…
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On Bhagavata
Since there are infinite levels of wisdom, there are infinite ways of seeing the same thing…
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Thou shalt include the Queer
So the Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has opened the conversation on being more accepting and inclusive of gay people and gay marriages. Will the Indian Right Wing groups follow?…
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Discovery may actually be Re-discovery
Those who believe in discovery lean towards the linear mindset. Those who believe in re-discovery lean towards the cyclical mindset…
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The Unpredictable Animal
Relationships are never predictable. And this has been the bane of the corporate world…
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A brief history of Vedic thought
When we try and study Vedic thought, we realize that we have to do a kind of mental archaeology, digging through layers of literature and ideas…
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Karma is the new swastika
The West always decides what words should mean in the global arena…
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On Stories we Tell
Humans tell stories, because we need to. They tell us who we are in this world by giving the world a structure. Stories transform us into heroes, villains, victims and martyrs…
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Violence and Gita
Ramayana and Mahabharata valorise not war so much as the pursuit of social obligation, even while engaging in long discussions on the morality of war…
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New avatar for old crusades
For the Muslim world secularism, rationality, liberalism and democracy are just new avatars of their old Christian foes…
