Modern Mythmaking
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Genuine Festivals
As long as they give us a certain degree of comfort and happiness and joy,celebrating even slightly bizarre days is acceptable.
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Making sense of the bizarre
Because it is unfamiliar does not make anything or anyone bizarre.Everything is just a perception.
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When do we forgive ?
Forgiveness and letting go is more beneficial to the person who forgives and lets go than to the one who is forgiven.
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Comic Myths
We have to understand that there is a vast difference between yesterday and today..What was yesterday is not today.
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Domesticating Sapphos
Just because we ignore certain realities does not mean they do not exist,as they always have been.
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The Yaksha’s potbelly
Our traditional Indian notions of beauty have certainly undergone a radical change in modern times.
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Outsourcing the storytelling grandmom
Perhaps,it is not about the stories that are told but more about what they stand for-the entire gamut of values,identity,morals,oral traditions….
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Changing for better or worse
It depends on whether we wish to feel like victims or heroes ? and are these perceptions even lasting ?
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Burden of Unity
A thousand different languages,scripts,food,castes,religions,political views and beliefs and they all unite to make one India.
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Vultures and the Sacred Jackass
What is most interesting about studying vultures and jackasses is to observe how humans have given adjectives to animals. We judge them and associate them with positive and negative traits. This varies with culture.
