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Literature FestivalVideos
October, 2017: Khushwant Singh Literary Festival
Devdutt Pattanaik speaks on decoding Hanuman…
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Articles
Why entrepreneurs are being viewed as social smugglers.
Nobility was linked to poverty and service. Those who sought to generate wealth were viewed as distorted by greed…
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To attack critics Modi used Shalya
Shalya was the master of psychological warfare in the Mahabharata…
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God of Craftsmen
Vishwakarma Puja is located at the cusp between death and rebirth. Makes sense as Vishwakarma is the divine craftsman, patron of all craftsmen…
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Defining Hinduism
WHO IS A HINDU? How a quest to define the faith has resulted in a shift of power away from the common man…
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Lakshmi means finance, not Finance Minister
When the Vice President recently referred to Lakshmi as Finance Minister, he revealed a popular misunderstanding of Hindu mythology…
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Interviews
Goddess with yellow face
You’re all set for Durga Puja, but do you know these myths and legends surrounding the Goddess?…
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Cinderella Vrat Katha
The stories of the vrata katha are most interesting as they speak of coping with family issues…
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Brahmins who rejected Ram
In the epic, Ram kills Ravana, who is son of a brahmin named Vaishrava, of the Paulatsya clan, descending from Brahma himself…
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How did the world come into being according to Hinduism?
What comes first, mind or matter?…
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Castrated for God
Body mutilation as part of faith stems from the idea that the body, the vehicle of desire, is a fetter (as per Hindu, Buddhist and Jain ascetic traditions) or a sin (as per Christian ascetic traditions)…
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Books
The Boys Who Fought: The Mahabharata for Children
‘When you can fight for the meek without hating the mighty, you follow dharma.’…
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Articles
The moral consciousness
We live in times where there seems to be a fracture between consciousness and morality. But an expansion of the former leads to a deepening of the latter…
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Balancing the Love Charger
Few are able to handle that a good person can do a bad thing too. Just as it is possible for a bad person to do a good thing…
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Is divorce permitted in Hinduism?
In many cultures, marriage is a contract. Divorce is the breaking of the contract. Some, like the Catholic Church, believe that the contract of marriage is sacred and hence, must never be broken. Others disagree…
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Articles
Middlemen In God’s Market
Published on 11th September, 2017, in Outlook. It is human to try and understand nature …
