Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Mother Brahmi
When I hear stories of how Ganesha acted as a scribe and wrote down the Mahabharata dictated by Vyasa or how Hanuman wrote his Ramayana on leaves, or the name of Rama on the rocks used to build the bridge to Lanka, I wonder what script they used?…
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Pink Things to Good People
We are conditioned to believe the mythology of ‘fairness and justice’ popularized in recent time, and yet despite the complex of well-meaning laws, bad things continue to happen to good people…
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Durga’s Lions
This lion is the animal within us that seeks to dominate. Why does the lion seek to dominate?…
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Not without the Goddess
The Goddess plays a key role in Indic thought, most in Hinduism, quite a bit in Buddhism and to some degree in Jainism…
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Indianomix – Mythical or Modern
This is an exclusive excerpt from Vivek Dehejia and Rupa Subramanya’s book “Indianomix,” published by Random House India on Dec. 6. This excerpt is adapted from the fourth section of Chapter 5, “Mythical or Modern?”…
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You still eat with your hands
What is okay for me need not be okay for you.What is not acceptable is you putting down what is okay for me…
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The transformation of the Buddha
A telling of the history of the Buddha and the different forms of Buddhism…
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The Talking Thali
Food ! Baked,steamed,fried – served in courses or all at once – eaten with cutlery or without – the timing of consumption – the sequence of consumption ! It’s about food !…
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The Thunder Dragon
Modernity ? Yes,of course but everything comes with a price.Is that price worth it ?…
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The Constructions of Holy Books
The modern cosmopolitan urban Hindu often overlooks this history and these divisions perhaps because it is so much convenient to ‘unify the diversity’ of Hinduism through one book…
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The tale of two epics
A hypothesis that the Ramayana and Mahabharata were reactions to Buddhism…
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Gods of the little tradition
Every village has its own mythology that is different from the one imposed by the mainstream, often urban, culture…
