Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Epics as Novels
Most people in India are not familiar with the Sanskrit Ramayana or Mahabharata. We read popular versions…
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When did events of Ramayana and Mahabharata actually occur?
It all depends on what answer you are prepared to receive, for the answer is complicated and mired in politics…
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Explanation from mythology: Why people voted for Modi, Brexit and Trump — and against Arab Spring
Modern society works on the philosophy of equality. These verdicts are a vote for diversity…
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Is samosa Indian, or Vedic?
Many ingredients and dishes came to India from foreign lands. Likewise, many ingredients and dishes went from India to foreign lands…
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Is a yogini a female yogi, or a wild erotic witch?
The answer depends on what feelings are evoked in you by these four words: yogi, wild, erotic and witch…
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When Saraswati met Indus
Decoding the correlation between the hymns of the Rig Veda and the artefacts of the Indus Valley civilisation…
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How Adi Shankaracharya united a fragmented land
Is our current understanding of Shankara contaminated by the ambitions of his not-so-intellectual followers who relish the idea of domination?…
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Feudal trap: Why do Indians fear prostitutes and traders?
We yearn for loyalty and are afraid of those who sell their skills and expertise to the highest bidder…
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The story of enlightenment
Siddhartha, a Nepalese prince of the Sakya clan, was determined to discover the cause of suffering. After deep meditation under the peepal tree at the site, awareness dawned. He became the Buddha…
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Is Hinduism A Religion, A Myth Or Something Else?
Words are not ‘objective truths’ as we assume, but ‘subjective truths’, imbued with power and embedded in politics…
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“No society can exist without myth”
In fact, he believes that “no society can exist without myth as it creates notions of right and wrong, good and bad, heaven and hell, rights and duties 
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What we really mean when we say that Modi became the prime minister of India because of karma
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power riding a very popular wave, was it karma at work? When we ponder on this question, we understand karma. This article is about karma, not Modi…
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Leveraging the Aryans
The theories of how the ‘Aryan race’ is leveraged to explain various social phenomena…
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The everlasting flame
The agiary is off limits to non-Parsis, but the basis of the exclusion may be common to the Vedas and the Avesta…
