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  • Purva Paksha and the Art of Winning Arguments

    Purva Paksha and the Art of Winning Arguments

    Published on 23rd July, 2022, in Economic Times. The New Testament was finalised about 1500 …

  • Your Skills Matter. But Do You?

    Your Skills Matter. But Do You?

    Published on 9th July, 2022, in Economic Times. The sun has no value on its …

  • Economics Of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva That Businessmen Across the World Need to Know

    Economics Of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva That Businessmen Across the World Need to Know

    Published on 25th June, 2022, in Economic Times. The Puranas were composed 1500 years ago, …

  • Is Celibacy Unnatural or Supernatural?

    Is Celibacy Unnatural or Supernatural?

    Published on 18th December, 2021, in Times of India. Celibacy is an unnatural act in …

  • What Creates Culture Also Creates Cult

    What Creates Culture Also Creates Cult

    Published on 5th November, 2021, in The Hindu. Cult refers to religious groups, or brainwashed …

  • View: How Rigveda Speaks of Aspiration and Collaboration

    View: How Rigveda Speaks of Aspiration and Collaboration

    Published on 19th March, 2021, in the Economic Times. The Veda is not a single …

  • The myth of giving

    The myth of giving

    Published on 10th May, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror Once upon a time, there was an …

  • How the migratory patterns of the Brahmins, the weavers shaped Indian culture.

    How the migratory patterns of the Brahmins, the weavers shaped Indian culture.

    Published on 2nd May, 2020, in The Economic Times Whenever we speak of migrations, we …

  • Is Shiva the corporate destroyer or Kalki?

    Is Shiva the corporate destroyer or Kalki?

    Published on 15th June, 2019, in Economic Times. Kalki, the tenth avatar of Vishnu, is …

  • War-room culture celebrates violence where competition is seen as the enemy

    War-room culture celebrates violence where competition is seen as the enemy

    Published on 31st May, 2019 in Economic Times. Many corporate houses love to have a …

  • Who is a Hindu? The Curious Case of Brahmins

    Who is a Hindu? The Curious Case of Brahmins

    Published on 17th February, 2019 in Mumbai Mirror. In Hindu scriptures, killing a Brahmin is deemed the worst of sins. It is called Brahma-hatyapaap. And he who kills a Brahmin is considered the greatest sinner…

  • 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…

  • Three Vedic women

    Three Vedic women

    In Rig Veda, we come across three women whose stories reveal a lot about the period…

  • Validating human existence through the Indian scheme of things

    Validating human existence through the Indian scheme of things

    In the Vedas, they say that Artha is about generating food, by creating goods and services. While Kama, is satisfying this hunger. In Dharma, we consider the hunger of others and, in Moksha, we outgrow our hunger…

  • When a man loves a woman

    When a man loves a woman

    We have always valued a woman dying for a man, but have never valued a man who dies for a woman…

  • Radha In Space And Time

    Radha In Space And Time

    All Dharmashatras say, all traditions (riti) and laws (niti) must be subject to change depending on geography (desh), history (kala) and capability of communities (guna) involved…

  • Who is a Hindu? Hinduism in the Caribbean

    Who is a Hindu? Hinduism in the Caribbean

    The easiest way to identify a Caribbean Hindu is to look at their house from outside:you will see a jhandi, a pennant of different colours that represent different gods…

  • Who is a Hindu? The importance of Ubhaya Bharati

    Who is a Hindu? The importance of Ubhaya Bharati

    The scholar taught Adi Shankaracharya that one cannot gain real wisdom without understanding the household, the body and the woman…