Ethics
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An Ode to Fish and Fisherfolk of Mumbai
This year, on the morning after Sarvapitri Amavasya, the fish of Banganga floated up. Belly first. Silver turned grey. Municipal workers fished them out with nets and stuffed them into buckets. The smell will hang over Walkeshwar for days.
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Today’s Sanatan Dharma prefers ‘trad’ Bhisma
The Trans Bill signed by the President of India aligns with the commander of the Kauravas, not Krishna. The Kauravas were more aligned to Christian Evangelists, not “woke” Krishna.
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Comparing Sun Tzu and Kautilya
Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War, and Kautilya, the author of the Arthashastra. Both wrote for rulers and generals who were constantly at war. Both believed that power was too important to be left to emotion, impulse…
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Vegetarianism Is Not About the Environment, But About Caste
You start deluding yourself that you are a kind person because you build a zoo to house animals that have been displaced by your industries, that destroyed their natural habitat, in the first place.
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Indian Knowledge Systems
The first list of an educational syllabus in India comes from the Chandogya Upanishad, when the Sanatakumar sages ask Narada what subjects he is proficient in.
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The strange tale of Oghavati
In life,sometimes,there are questions which are very tough to answer and some situations almost impossible to fathom.
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The Clothes of Draupadi
The disrobing of Draupadi is horrifying not simply for the terrible act of humiliating a woman in public- it is what it signifies – the collapse of dharma.