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  • Indian Mathematics For the Ego

    Indian Mathematics For the Ego

    Published on 19th March, 2023, in Mid-day. To show how time is different for different …

  • Are You a Harappan or Vedic Woman?

    Are You a Harappan or Vedic Woman?

    Published on 5th March, 2023, in Mid-day. Harappan cities thrived between 2500 BCE and 1900 …

  • Parshuram’s Tryst With Kshatriyas

    Parshuram’s Tryst With Kshatriyas

    Published on 26th February, 2023, in Mid-day. Parshuram was born in a Brahmin family of …

  • Veda, Vedanga, Vedanta

    Veda, Vedanga, Vedanta

    Published on 19th February, 2023, in Mid-day. Hinduism can be divided into three major eras. …

  • How Gods, Demons Formed India’s Mountains, Rivers and Seas

    How Gods, Demons Formed India’s Mountains, Rivers and Seas

    Published on 28th January, 2023, in The Times of India. One of the ways you …

  • How the Gayatri Mantra, composed by men, heard by men, for a male deity, became embodied as a goddess

    How the Gayatri Mantra, composed by men, heard by men, for a male deity, became embodied as a goddess

    Published on 27th January, 2023, in The Hindu. Mantra is a carefully crafted sound formula …

  • Where Is the River Saraswati?

    Where Is the River Saraswati?

    Published on 8th January, 2021, in Mid-day. In Gujarat, there is a river called Saraswati …

  • The Sun Kings Who Ruled Sri Lanka

    The Sun Kings Who Ruled Sri Lanka

    Published on 15th January, 2023, in Mid-day. As 2022 drew to a close, the Government …

  • Losing and Gaining the Head

    Losing and Gaining the Head

    Published on 1st January, 2023, in Mid-day. We have heard stories of how Shiva beheaded …

  • The Meaning of Contentment

    The Meaning of Contentment

    Published on 30th December, 2022, in The Hindu. At the start of anything new, like …

  • The Lore of Weavers

    The Lore of Weavers

    Published on 18th December, 2022, in Mid-day. Weaving is a very unique human activity. Animals …

  • How Hara and Hari Helped Kings of Cambodia

    How Hara and Hari Helped Kings of Cambodia

    Published on 17th December, 2022, in Times of India. In the 5th century AD, i.e. …

  • The Boar of Kantara Has Much Significance In Our Mythology

    The Boar of Kantara Has Much Significance In Our Mythology

    Published on 2nd December, 2022, in The Hindu. The domesticated pig descended from the wild …

  • American Snakes in Hindu Ganga

    American Snakes in Hindu Ganga

    Published on 27th November, 2022, in Mid-day. A section of American Hindus are trying to …

  • Why Goan Hinduism Is Unique in India?

    Why Goan Hinduism Is Unique in India?

    Published on 18th November, 2022, in Times of India. Goa is a sliver of land …

  • The Adornment of Gods

    The Adornment of Gods

    Rare Objects from the Amrapali Collection…

  • Grandchild of Vedic Waters

    Grandchild of Vedic Waters

    Published on 13th November, 2022, in Mid-day. Of the thousand songs in the Rig Veda, …

  • Why Some Gods Dance and Some Don’t

    Why Some Gods Dance and Some Don’t

    Published on 6th November, 2022, in the Times of India. One of the things we …