Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Self-styled saints and registered saints
To be a saint, one not only needs to be holy (that can be disputed) but also have followers (that can be proved)…
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Love in the time of hate
Young India needs to find the strength and patience to face the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of India, find innovative ways to live together in diversity, and not be afraid of rapidly changing ecosystems…
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So what if Ganesha had plastic surgery?
This is not a page out of mythological fiction novel. This is what some people believe happened in India’s past, long ago…
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Interviews
An Interview with Flipkart
India’s best-known writer on mythology explains the relationship between his latest book and feminism, and questions a Western view of Hindu mythology as chaos…
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Articles
Discovery may actually be Re-discovery
Those who believe in discovery lean towards the linear mindset. Those who believe in re-discovery lean towards the cyclical mindset…
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New avatar for old crusades
For the Muslim world secularism, rationality, liberalism and democracy are just new avatars of their old Christian foes…
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Mother Brahmi
When I hear stories of how Ganesha acted as a scribe and wrote down the Mahabharata dictated by Vyasa or how Hanuman wrote his Ramayana on leaves, or the name of Rama on the rocks used to build the bridge to Lanka, I wonder what script they used?…
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Articles
Cradle of Monotheism
When empires came into being, emperors believed their god was the greater god, and he was the chosen man, and his people were the chosen people…
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The Good Death
Euthanasia means a good death and is a term used for an old or sick person voluntarily choosing death to relieve himself/herself of pain and suffering either by refusing treatment, or by asking the assistance of a doctor to facilitate his/her death either actively (administering a poison, for example) or passively (not administering a treatment,…
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Articles
A Change of Language
Language is dynamic. And since words create worlds, the world is dynamic. This dynamism is seen in religion too…
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Articles
How do you tell a story like the Ramayana?
The epic is like a river. It flows where it will, resisting narrow interpretations…
