Modern Mythmaking
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Outsourcing the storytelling grandmom
Perhaps,it is not about the stories that are told but more about what they stand for-the entire gamut of values,identity,morals,oral traditions….
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Changing for better or worse
It depends on whether we wish to feel like victims or heroes ? and are these perceptions even lasting ?
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Burden of Unity
A thousand different languages,scripts,food,castes,religions,political views and beliefs and they all unite to make one India.
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Vultures and the Sacred Jackass
What is most interesting about studying vultures and jackasses is to observe how humans have given adjectives to animals. We judge them and associate them with positive and negative traits. This varies with culture.
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The Constructions of Holy Books
The modern cosmopolitan urban Hindu often overlooks this history and these divisions perhaps because it is so much convenient to ‘unify the diversity’ of Hinduism through one book.
