2020
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A Different Hinduism
Published on 19th January, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror Hinduism, as expressed by Adi Shankaracharya 1,200 years ago, was very different from the Hinduism expressed by Swami Vivekananda and Swami Dayananda Saraswati around 150 years ago, because each one faced different…
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Dancing in Krishna consciousness
Published on 19th January, 2020, in Mid-day In America and Europe, one often encounters white men dressed in orange robes, wearing beads and garlands around their neck, vertical marks on their foreheads, holding kettle drums in their hands, singing and…
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Sarama, the first doggess
Published on 12th January, 2020, in Mid-day The word ‘bitch’ has a very sharp biting negative connotation in common parlance. It refers to a woman of loose morals, a treacherous woman, a manipulative woman. However, increasingly the word has been…
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Fourteen jewels from the sea
Published on 11th January, 2020, in the Economic Times The churning of the ocean of milk is a key theme found in temples across ancient Southeast Asia indicating the spread of Hindu ideas there between the 3rd and 13th century.…
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Masculine and Feminine Gods
Published on 5th January, 2020, in Mid-day In mythology, generally, masculinity refers to the human desire to dominate and be territorial like the proverbial alpha male. In a positive sense it protects, in a negative sense it controls. Femininity is…
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Mythology of White Hindus
Published on 5th January, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror We may claim to be free of colonial rule, but we are still spellbound by Caucasian people. We link their skin to beauty and power. So it is not great surprise that…
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Malayalam : Ramayana Versus Mahabharata
Translation of Ramayana Versus Mahabharata: My Playful Comparison
