Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Doesn’t Shiva take drugs?
To understand this mystery, we have to appreciate how Hinduism divides the world into inside and outside, the home and the wilderness, the realm of the householder and the realm of the hermit…
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The Bacchus of Bharat
On the fringes of mainstream Hinduism lie the stories of Kilkari Bhairava — raw and elemental, they deal with sex and violence…
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Beheading you, beheading me
Have you been noticing the rising number of politicians and ‘religious leaders’ who seem obsessed with lopping off heads: either their own or that of others. Are they influenced by tales of head-offering that we find in the Puranas?…
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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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Prosecuting the Gods
Conversations that seek to ‘justify’ the actions of mythic figures often miss the point…
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Divine domestic discords
The malaise of modern scholarship on Hinduism often comes from the assumption that Hindu sacred texts, like Bible and Koran, are instructive and seek to ‘reform’ humans…
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How many eyes do you have?
‘With a woman by your side, you are like the three-eyed Shiva. Without her, you are the one-eye Shukra, though you may look like the two-eyed Kama.’…
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Breaking the royal pillar
Stories are not created in vacuum. They respond to a historical context and emerge to communicate a point of view…
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Our relationship with wealth
In the Hindu Puranas, the problem is never with wealth. The problem is with our relationship with wealth…
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Hatred is not Divine
when someone says that homosexuality is not ‘approved’ by Hinduism, they are missing the whole point of Hinduism…
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Yoga of the Jogis
Yoga can be seen in three ways: the modern way, the upanishadic way and finally the Siddha way…
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The Glamorization of Alcohol
When the gods churned the ocean of milk, amongst the many treasures that emerged there was a lady called Varuni, daughter of the sea-god Varuna, who was the goddess of wine. Actually goddess of alcohol, but wine sounds so much better than alcohol…
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Yoga of the yogis
Yoga,Tantra,Jogis,Nath-Panthis and all that come in this pantheon of mysticism and power…
