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Shutting Up a Vampire
Published on A vampire in Indian folktales is known as a vetala. It is unable …
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Give or Take: Bartering For Better Economics
Published on 15th April, 2021, in Economic Times. The word ‘transaction’ is associated with commerce, …
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Hinduism Beyond Vedas
Published on 20th December, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror. Hinduism is typically taught through a historical …
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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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What They Don’t Tell You About Advaita
Who is a Hindu? What they don’t tell you about Advaita Published on 30th August, …
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How Evangelical Models Inspire Hindu Gurudoms
Published on 1st March, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror For many people, ‘guru’ is no different …
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Narada, the cursed
In the Puranas, we are told that Narada, the mind, was born from the thoughts of Brahma, and like all sages had the knowledge of Brahma vidya, or the ultimate truth of the world. He would go around the world sharing this knowledge and enabling people to break the cycle of birth and death. …
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Who is a Hindu? Hindu ship of Theseus
Traditions may change every few years, but one school of thought says the essence of Hinduism will remain the same…
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Who is a Hindu? How Hinduism was enriched by rivalry
Every religion is an outcome of many historical and geographical forces. Every religion has a past and transforms over time…
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The spread of Hinduism
By the time the Upanishads were composed, 2,500 years ago, there was a familiarity with the Gangetic Plain…
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Who is a guru?
Different people in different contexts use the word guru differently to refer to different kinds of people…
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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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God’s Marital Status
Is celibacy or singleness a prerequisite to seek an ideal world? It’s another matter that marital pleasures are fine for temple deities with their consorts…
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Did arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand years ago destroy Hindu culture?
Published on 31st May, 2017, on www.dailyo.in . The arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand …
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What is Tamil Veda?
Depending on who you ask, you will find one of three books identified as the Tamil Veda, locally known as Dravida Veda or Tamil Marai…
