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  • Did the Harappan know to write?

    Did the Harappan know to write?

    Published on 24th May, 2020, in Mid-day. Writing in India emerges only in the Mauryan …

  • Islam’s Agricultural Contribution

    Islam’s Agricultural Contribution

    Published on 17th April, 2020, in the Economic Times Nabi Bansa is a Bengali epic …

  • View: Why Indians do not innovate

    View: Why Indians do not innovate

    Published on 4th April, 2020, in the Economic Times Despite being highly creative, there are …

  • Beyond objectives are consequences

    Beyond objectives are consequences

    Published on 20th March, 2020, in the Economic Times Indian mythology is based on the …

  • Aryans of the Freedom Struggle

    Aryans of the Freedom Struggle

    Published on 15th March, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror The British had long justified colonisation using …

  • Dancing in Krishna consciousness

    Dancing in Krishna consciousness

    Published on 19th January, 2020, in Mid-day In America and Europe, one often encounters white …

  • Did Cain really kill Abel?

    Did Cain really kill Abel?

    Published on 26th December, 2019, in The Times of India Two hundred years ago, in …

  • Pakistani Mythology

    Pakistani Mythology

    Published on 3rd November, 2019, in Mid-day Pakistan was the first modern republic to declare …

  • Aryavarta

    Aryavarta

    Published on 24th August, 2019, in Mid-day The word ‘Aryavarta’ has become quite popular. There …

  • Love for Notre Dame

    Love for Notre Dame

    Published on 5th May, 2019, in Mid-day. Notre Dame means Our Lady in French. Though …

  • Hinduism and Buddhism

    Hinduism and Buddhism

    Published on 28th April, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror. It was in the 19th Century that …

  • For all its noble aspirations, social media is pure business.

    For all its noble aspirations, social media is pure business.

    To make money, you need access to markets. To gain access to markets, you need to make sure that the controller of the market favours you. If the controller of the market shuts the door on you, you have no opportunity to enter the market…

  • How India lost its rich maritime tradition to Europeans

    How India lost its rich maritime tradition to Europeans

    Published on 22nd March, 2019, in Economic Times. Sea travel is mentioned in the Buddhist …

  • Herding Indian cats in a non-compliant culture

    Herding Indian cats in a non-compliant culture

    Published on 9th February, 2019, in Economic Times. One of the things that you notice when you travel to countries like Australia and Singapore is the obsession with rules and regulations, and the rigorous implementation of systems…

  • Bypassing the womb

    Bypassing the womb

    In Puranic literature, we come across the concept of ayonija, someone who is not born from the womb, and consequently, is able to bypass or rise above the cycle of birth and death…

  • Who is a Hindu? Hindu ship of Theseus

    Who is a Hindu? Hindu ship of Theseus

    Traditions may change every few years, but one school of thought says the essence of Hinduism will remain the same…

  • Mountain of Vedas

    Mountain of Vedas

    Through stories of the mountain of Vedas and the blinking gods, Hindus were made aware of the scale of the universe and its wisdom, very different from the finite, closed word of ancient Greeks, inherited by the church…

  • Is post-truth same as myth?

    Is post-truth same as myth?

    Western myth, or the dominant worldview that shapes the long history of the West, remains singular and linear…