Myth Theory

  • Fear of the evil eye

    Fear of the evil eye

    One way of explaining why certain unpleasant events occur and a few remedies for the same…

  • Cradle of Imagination

    Cradle of Imagination

    We can either sleep and do nothing or try something once or open up infinite possibilities to succeed !…

  • Its 5000 years old

    Its 5000 years old

    History has never held so much importance for India as have popular notions.Perhaps,thats why much of of it is not as accurate as that of the West…

  • Spawned in Opium

    Spawned in Opium

    The sins of the fathers are revisited upon the sons…

  • Spiritual LSD

    Spiritual LSD

    Its about having all three in our lives and in the right doses…

  • Decoding a Hindu Marriage

    Decoding a Hindu Marriage

    The Big Fat Hindu Wedding and all that it entails…

  • The violence of the Goddess

    The violence of the Goddess

    We have to ask ourselves the more important question of ‘why’ it is so.In awareness lies the wisdom…

  • Indian Thought via Western Eye

    Indian Thought via Western Eye

    It is very difficult to reach a middle ground when the two parties involved are fundamentally different-in thought and cultural upbringing…

  • Drain of Wealth Theory

    Drain of Wealth Theory

    What amount can actually be called enough?…

  • The dance of the pot

    The dance of the pot

    An exploration on why the pot is the ultimate proof of humanity…

  • The tale of two epics

    The tale of two epics

    A hypothesis that the Ramayana and Mahabharata were reactions to Buddhism…

  • Grammar of the Gods

    Grammar of the Gods

    Goddesses in mythology are symbols of ideas, and not always expressions of patriarchal delusions…

  • We did start the Fire

    We did start the Fire

    What the British disdainfully referred to as pre-modern in the 18th century turns out to be actually post-post-modern in the 21st century…

  • Painting the town blue

    Painting the town blue

    A parable is not a myth….parables are prescriptive…they have a moral ending…here is one…

  • Gods of the little tradition

    Gods of the little tradition

    Every village has its own mythology that is different from the one imposed by the mainstream, often urban, culture…

  • A Mythic Inheritance

    A Mythic Inheritance

    Mythology is not about gods killing demons…