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When Asked a Question
What many do not realise is that questions that follow lectures are often designed to evoke a combat…
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Gods of plurality
Plurality is described as respecting each other’s faith. But what if there is something unworthy of respect in the other’s faith…
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The Goddess Meenakshi of Madurai
Published on 27th November, 2016, in Mumbai Mirror. We have all heard the story of …
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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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The Bahubali saga
The 57-feet-tall statue, built centuries ago, is still Karnataka’s pride…
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End of Enlightenment?
‘A WISE man is calm in fortune and misfortune. He does not separate good times and bad times. He lets go of sukkha, the feeling of joy, and dukkha, the feeling of sorrow.’…
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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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Hiss of the PIO Bharat Tyagi
A small group of PIOs, Queen Victoria’s frozen-in-time children, imagine they must save India from Indians…
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The gates of Dwarka
The Krishna in Dwarka has four arms, the upper arms holding the chakra on the left, the gada on the right, and the lower arms holding the shankha on the left and the padma on the right…
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Can we say that Hinduism’s Narasimha is like Hollywood’s Wolverine?
We often seek similarities between Indian and western stories. But we must probe the reason…
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Adinath Temple of Ranakpur
The Jain temple enshrines a sage, who has attained the highest state of realisation…
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The vessel of rasa
Typically, in India, we refer to an actor in a play or a character in a book as ‘patra’ which literally means vessel. Why?…
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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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Dr Pattanaik’s Events in the United States of America, 2016
The list of Dr Pattanaik’s events in the United States of America, dated between late September, 2016 and early October, 2016…
