Goddess of Speech

Published on 19th August, 2018, in Mumbai Mirror. When we speak of Saraswati, the image that comes in our mind is of a goddess wearing white and holding a lute (veena) in her hand, riding a swan or perhaps a peacock. She’s the ‘Goddess of Knowledge’. Her images are found in libraries and in schools, she is associated with arts and culture, commonly seen with Ganesha by her side. But when we read the Vedas, we hear of a very different Saraswati – the river Saraswati. Historians are fairly confident that at one time a river called Saraswati flowed in the north-west part of India, ..