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Ask Krishna Anything? A Mythologist Puts Gita Chatbots To The Test
Whenever I encounter young earnest young, Hindu missionaries selling the Gita to me on roadsides, I like to pose them a question that helps me gain insight about their mind and their understanding of the Gita. I ask them, ‘Why does Krishna refer to Arjuna as a “kliba” in Chapter 2 verse 3?…
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Mythology of Maternal Uncles
Published on 30th January, 2022, in Mid-day. The maternal uncle plays a very important role …
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Why 14 Years of Exile?
Published on 2nd January, 2022, in Mid-day. There are two big mysteries in Hindu mythology. …
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Does the Mahabharata Respect Women’s Desire?
Published on 14th March, 2021, in Mumbai Mirror. The Bhil Bharata is a tribal version …
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Seeing Mahabharata from the Point of View of the Forest
“When Might Is Right: Seeing Mahabharata from the Point of View of the Forest.” Published …
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An Unsuitable God
Published on 21st June, 2020, in Mid-day. In Vedic mythology we hear how the Ashwin …
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Revisiting Mahabharata with Devdutt Pattanaik
Revisiting Mahabharata with Devdutt Pattanaik is an exclusive presentation by Audible. “Mahabharata” is a story …
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Dharma During Crisis
Published on 12th April, 2020, in Mid-day As we go through a global pandemic which …
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Mahabharata On the Hills
Published on 26th January, 2020, in Mid-day Badrinath and Kedarnath are two major centres of …
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Lakshmi Helps Us Define Who’s God and Who’s Not
Published on 4th October, 2019, in Economic Times Everyone needs, and wants Lakshmi in Hindu …
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Vedic stories are different from Puranic stories
Who is a Hindu? Published on 29th September, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror In the Vedas, …
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When the concept of liberation is closely linked to the concept of debt
Published on 28th June, 2019, in Economic Times One of the key principles in Hindu …
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Who is a good Hindu father?
Published on 23rd June, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror Indians are obsessed with their mothers. An …
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The non-violent Ram: Stories from the Jain tradition – and how they differ from the Hindu canon
Published on 12th May, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror Followers of Hindutva believe that Jainism is …
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The metaphor of the forest
Published on 21st April, 2019, in Mid-day. To understand Hindu mythology, it is critical to …
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Dharma is not a game of thrones
We live in times where politicians talk of Ram and Ram-rajya, but take no lessons on what raj-dharma meant to Ram and his Ikshavaku clan. They refuse to take responsibility for failures of their own governance…