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  • Indra’s Paradise Is the Indian Paradise

    Indra’s Paradise Is the Indian Paradise

    Published on 30th April, 2023, in Mid-day. Swarga or paradise of the gods, full of …

  • A Serial Killer From Vedic Times

    A Serial Killer From Vedic Times

    Published on 16th April, 2023, in Mid-day. The Jaiminiya Brahmana is the prose section of …

  • The Wokeness of Bhasmasur

    The Wokeness of Bhasmasur

    Published on 15th April, 2023, in Economic Times. In the famous miniseries, Game of Thrones, …

  • Reframing Hindu Gods As Saviour Gods

    Reframing Hindu Gods As Saviour Gods

    Published on 9th April, 2023, in Mid-day. As per Christianity mythology, Jesus was crucified on …

  • Why Puranas Represent a Wider Indian Ethos Than the Vedas

    Why Puranas Represent a Wider Indian Ethos Than the Vedas

    Published on 5th April, 2023, in Times of India. The Puranas are called the fifth …

  • How Was I Conceived?

    How Was I Conceived?

    Published on 2nd April, 2023, in Mid-day. In Ramayan, Sita is ploughed out from the …

  • Forgotten Ballads Of Indian Merchants

    Forgotten Ballads Of Indian Merchants

    Published on 1st April, 2023, in Economic Times. India was famous for trading with Southeast …

  • 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 …

  • How Jains Described Chanakya and Chandra Gupta Maurya

    How Jains Described Chanakya and Chandra Gupta Maurya

    Published on 18th March, 2023, in Economic Times. As per popular lore, Chanakya was a …

  • 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. …

  • Bhakti Is Devotion? Is Loyalty?

    Bhakti Is Devotion? Is Loyalty?

    Published on 4th February, 2023, in Economic Times. Most family business owners in India prefer …

  • 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 …

  • View: Privilege to Saraswati at the cost of Durga & Lakshmi is an old Brahmanical hangover

    View: Privilege to Saraswati at the cost of Durga & Lakshmi is an old Brahmanical hangover

    Published on 21st January, 2023, in Economic Times. In America, the state serves the rich. …

  • 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 …

  • Shakti Is Power Within, Durga Is Power Without

    Shakti Is Power Within, Durga Is Power Without

    Published on 7th January, 2023, in Economic Times. In a popular social media short video, …