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  • Show me the original

    Show me the original

    All about wanting to see it written down on paper;about it being tangible…

  • History versus Mythology

    History versus Mythology

    The age old battle between history and mythology…

  • Capital Politics

    Capital Politics

    God, god, Goddess, bhagavan, Bhagavan, ishwar…

  • Canvas of my world

    Canvas of my world

    My truth or your truth ?? My belief or your belief ?? No one can ever claim they know the answer to this one pertinent question…

  • The song of the crow

    The song of the crow

    The search for the answer to that most eternal of all questions “why ?!”…

  • Passport Caste

    Passport Caste

    The power of an identity..Be it a passport or your caste !!…

  • Not sparing Gita

    Not sparing Gita

    It is so much easier to simply use the Gita rather than read it and espouse its ideals…

  • Politics of Origin

    Politics of Origin

    A theory about the supposed origin of Hinduism…

  • The offering of hair

    The offering of hair

    Hair- one of our most beautiful features.But it actually conveys depths of meaning as well…

  • Rotis for Ranganatha

    Rotis for Ranganatha

    What matters to the devotee is the faith inspired by the deity,not his origins or religion…

  • 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…

  • In Defence of the Buffalo

    In Defence of the Buffalo

    Can the word ‘evil’ be translated in Hindi or, for that matter, any Indian language?…

  • The Constructions of Holy Books

    The Constructions of Holy Books

    The modern cosmopolitan urban Hindu often overlooks this history and these divisions perhaps because it is so much convenient to ‘unify the diversity’ of Hinduism through one book…

  • A milkmaid called Radha

    A milkmaid called Radha

    Not all temples of Krishna feature Radha…

  • 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…

  • On a wing and a prayer

    On a wing and a prayer

    Who are angels? A little bit more about them……