Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Speech, Offence and Victimhood
Published on 4th September, 2022, in Mid-Day. What is the opposite of freedom of speech? …
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‘Dharma’ Always Comes With ‘Dharma-sankat’
Published on 4th December, 2021, in The Hindu. In a crime, the victim accuses the …
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The Geography of Gods
Who Is a Hindu? The Geography of Gods. Published on 8th November, 2020, in Mumbai …
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Ithasa As Propaganda
Published on 31st October, 2020, in Economic Times. If one travels to ancient Egypt, one …
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Spot the difference between sign and symbol
Published on 16th December, 2019, in The Hindu The symbol of India in Indian passports …
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Science and yoga
Published on 6th October, 2019, in Mid-day Is yoga scientific? This is a question I …
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Hindu gods like Rama & Shiva have six packs now to kill bad guys, like American superheroes
Even Amar Chitra Katha’s new comics have abandoned the gentle sensuality of Raja Ravi Varma and embraced the hyper-masculine, angry, violent American superhero style to portray Hindu gods and goddesses…
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Who is a Hindu? Always and everywhere
The notion that religious texts have always been around may be rooted in the timelessness of philosophies…
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Atheist and secular mythologies
Many people believe that mythology ceased to be relevant after the arrival of science, and the resulting rise of atheism…
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Questioning Traditional Hierarchies
Many women don’t like being identified as feminists as they see feminists as man-haters who …
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To Empathise
Why do people think that by calling stupid people stupid they will make them less …
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The Dog Dilemma
I thought I should get a dog. My dog-loving friends looked pleased at my conversion. …
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Question for the Alt-Fact world: Why can’t truth be plural?
When truth is singular, it becomes a territory and thus, a battlefield…
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The Excluded Ones
I heard that in the entire “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy, no two female …
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From Macaulay to Frawley, from Doniger to Elst Why do many Indians need White saviours?
Would non-White Indologists evoke such passions as the likes of Sheldon Pollock and Wendy Doniger or David Frawley and Koenraad Elst do?…
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Sustaining the wave of love
The other’s failings enables the self’s victory. And the self imagines it is because of its strategy. A vacuum sucks the self in, but the self believes it is the force causing the movement…
