2024
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UPSC ESSENTIALS: Art & Culture
The series intends to address the needs of the UPSC Aspirants in one of the most essential areas of their UPSC CSE syllabus- Indian Culture, Art, and Heritage. The objective is to provide value-added, knowledge-enriching, and thought-provoking content that UPSC…
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What Do We Really Know About Shankaracharya?
Comic books and popular mainstream films have created the impression that we know a lot about Adi Shankaracharya. But we know very little.
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A Fascinating History Of Coins In India
Ever since the existence of civilisations, humans have been trading to facilitate exchange. But trading can happen without coins by recording debt. In fact, it is debt or rinn — the word found in the Rig Veda — that played…
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Artificial Intelligent Slaves
So the origin of slavery and the origin of the working class really comes from the human desire not to produce one’s own food, but to outsource the work to others while enjoying its fruits.
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My Gita
We never actually hear what Krishna told Arjuna. We simply overhear what Sanjaya transmitted faithfully to the blind king Dhritarashtra in the comforts of the palace, having witnessed all that occurred on the distant battlefield, thanks to his telepathic sight.…
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Unwrapping the Meaning of Culture and Civilisation
Culture is what we are, civilisation is what we have. It suggests that culture is more psychological and about values, while civilisation is more material and about goods, technology, art and architecture. Can one exist without the other?
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Saraswati, Sister of the Indus
In 1947, India was partitioned. The major sites of the civilisation, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, went to Pakistan. The artefacts were divided between the two nations. The Priest King went to Pakistan; the Dancing Girl came to India.
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Stree 360 Degrees
Audible presents Stree 360 Degrees. Women in Indian mythology: what do stories from Vedas, Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Tamil, Buddhist and Jain lore tell us about women in ancient India? Were women oppressed or liberated? Did they have agency, or were…
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A King Called Trishanku
Once upon a time, there was a king called Trishanku who wanted access to Swarga, the paradise of the gods, located in the sky. But unfortunately, he was not good enough.
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Tracing Parsis and Their Monotheism
Gods were represented by images back then, and housed in temples. But the Persians chose fire, preferably that which came from the sky as lightning, to represent the formless Ahura Mazda — the benevolent power, one who is not a…
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From Mythological Deities to Management Jargons
In the business world, people talk about fixed assets and movable assets. In ancient times, merchants referred to the same concept using mythological characters. For example, fixed assets would be called Bhudevi or the earth goddess, and movable assets like…
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Nine Skylines of Bharat
The first skyline is the contemporary 21st-century glass and concrete skyscrapers of cities like Mumbai and Delhi…
