Geography

  • Beheading Brahma

    Beheading Brahma

    You cannot focus on others’ hunger unless you work on outgrowing your own…

  • Durga’s Lions

    Durga’s Lions

    This lion is the animal within us that seeks to dominate. Why does the lion seek to dominate?…

  • That Delightful Honeymoon

    That Delightful Honeymoon

    In the mouths of political celibates, the word ‘honeymoon’ can become vulgar. But the word itself is full of tenderness, anxieties and aspirations of newly weds…

  • India versus Bharat

    India versus Bharat

    ‘divide and rule’ …

  • Sensational Eyes

    Sensational Eyes

    We are reminded that no one is perfect, not even the king of the gods. And no one has to be perfect…

  • The Goddess Collective and its Brother

    The Goddess Collective and its Brother

    Shrines of the six or seven sisters are found across India from the Himalayas to the Gangetic plains to the forests of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu…

  • A Change of Language

    A Change of Language

    Language is dynamic. And since words create worlds, the world is dynamic. This dynamism is seen in religion too…

  • Not without the Goddess

    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…

  • No Diversity in Babel

    No Diversity in Babel

    Yes, diversity creates conflict and competition but it also allows for the rising of new ideas…

  • Going Around To Come Around

    Going Around To Come Around

    Everything is cyclical, like the seasons…

  • Ship of Theseus

    Ship of Theseus

    This is about the philosophical idea ‘Ship of Theseus’ also known as ‘Abraham Lincoln’s Axe’…

  • Desperately Seeking a Role Model

    Desperately Seeking a Role Model

    In many ways our quest for the perfect role model failed us because life is not perfect and humans are not perfect…

  • The imagined absence of feudalism

    The imagined absence of feudalism

    While the feudal orders are frowned by the new world of politics and economics, the human desire to dominate cannot be underestimated…

  • Of Aubergine and Okra

    Of Aubergine and Okra

    For whom is a story told?…

  • Battle of Lakshmi and Saraswati

    Battle of Lakshmi and Saraswati

    We need Saraswati to get Lakshmi…

  • Not quite flexible

    Not quite flexible

    It is not a case of efficiency; it is a case of diversity…