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Published on 30th November, 2021, in Economic Times. The world’s oldest wedding hymn is found in the Rig Veda. A thousand year later, dharma-shastra speaks of eight ways in which a man can marry a woman. One of them, not approved but accepted, is rape (pisacha vivaha). This is not acceptable legally today, but marriage continues to be an important theme in Hinduism as it transforms the student (brahmachari) into a householder (grihasthi), who has the right to inherit wealth, and is obliged to generate and distribute wealth. Of course, these laws were for the elite. They were not obligatory for those without power, status ..

Who is a Hindu? Gender fluidity in Hinduism Published on 2nd August, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror. Greek mythology focuses a lot on same-sex love: love between men and men, women and women and between men and boys i.e. inter-generational love. Hindu mythology focuses on transgenders — men who turn into women and women who turn into men. In other words, different cultures express sexuality, apart from heterosexuality, in their own way. Greek mythology tells us how Zeus, the king of the gods, falls in love with Ganymedes, prince of Troy, and takes the form of an eagle to abduct him. It also tells you how ..