2018 / Articles
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How Lord Hanuman can make leaders good human beings
Hanuman is powerful. So he does not have the need to intimidate people.
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Many happy Buddhas
The fundamental difference between Mahayana Buddhism and the older school of Buddhism is that it had a far more optimistic view of life
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Who is a Hindu? Why do intellectuals scorn Hindu deities?
Hindus as it doesn’t comply with their preconceived notions of what god and religion should be.
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Different and Happily So: Time to do away with spiritual homophobia and embrace diversity
Hopefully, families will realise the value of having a gay uncle and a lesbian aunt around them who do not fit the norm of what it means to be a man or a woman.
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Is post-truth same as myth?
Western myth, or the dominant worldview that shapes the long history of the West, remains singular and linear
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Will India inc hire gay Tim Cook post-377 verdict?
With Supreme Court of India decimalizing homosexuality in no uncertain terms on 6th September 2018, will companies include ‘sexuality’ as part of their diversity policy?
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Back to old values of love
By decriminalising gay sex, SC recognises where India’s greatness lies – in inclusion and diversity
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A Buddhist Goddess
Before this, the only goddess who was very prominent in Buddhist literature was Shri or the Goddess of fortune, clearly included within the Buddhist iconography by the lay people
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Krishna As a Girl
Strivesha is a depiction of Krishna as a woman, writes DEVDUTT PATTANAIK, and narrates stories related to the form of Krishna that displays joy and showers affection
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Who is a Hindu? North’s Kanwariya and South’s Kavadi
A selective understanding of the faith by those who control social discourse is the tragedy of Hinduism.
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Vedic thunder, rain and frogs
Published on 26th August, 2018, in Mid-day. Parjanya is the Vedic god of rain and thunderstorms. We don’t remember him anymore. But Mandala 5, verse 83, is a beautiful song describing and praising him. The thunder and lightning that smashes…
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Power Helped Women Change World Religions
Roughly 1500 years ago, femininity became a major force, not because men became enlightened, but because women secured positions of power.
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Breaking the binary
Binaries are a cultural concept for simplicity. But, in nature there is no such thing as binaries, things wax and wane, telescope into each other, there are species which mingle and merge and there is no absolute
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Who is a Hindu? – Saraswati: Once she was a river
Historians are fairly confident that at one time a river called Saraswati flowed in the north-west part of India, near or around the river Indus, and it is here that the early Vedic civilisation thrived.
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Acknowledging Islam’s Diversity
At the time of the World Wars, beyond the traditional Shia-Sunni divide, Islam had many regional forms: there was an Arabic form, there was a Persian form, there was the Indian form, there was an Indonesian form.
