Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Passport shame: What’s really at the heart of the California textbook row on Hinduism?
It is a battle that will not die down, for it reveals a great split in the Indian American community…
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Are Indian courts and activists denying the gods their gender and sexuality?
This de-sexing of gods and goddesses makes it difficult to explain the exclusion of women from the presence of celibate gods…
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Leveraging the Aryans
The theories of how the ‘Aryan race’ is leveraged to explain various social phenomena…
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A ritual cleansing
Notions of reform are often based on ‘assumptions of deformity’, which are dependent on ‘assumptions of normality’…
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Beyond Hinduism: Is caste a religious or a regional problem?
Which mythology – religious or secular – shapes the South Asian mind?…
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Misogyny in Buddhist Lore
The world is conditioned to see the Ramayana and Manu-Smriti as anti-women, but not the Buddhist lore…
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The complete man
There are two Krishnas… The first is historical (a person), the second mythological (an idea)…
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Superstition and the inherent cruelty of rationalists
Rationality, secularism, religion, and superstition are parts of the same continuum called culture…
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Two kinds of prudery
In ancient India, as indicated from all literature and rituals, all forms of pleasure were celebrated…
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No resting in peace
RIP reveals that even in modern times we want to believe that after death there is something that needs ‘rest’ and ‘peace’. …
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Diversity of all religions
Every successful religion has a force that creates unity and a counterforce that creates diversity…
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The Geography of Knowledge
Why have we given the West authority to determine limits of management studies?…
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And all came tumbling down
Human imagination also seeks value. Human imagination also seeks meaning. Nature, however, offers neither explanation nor value nor meaning…
