Ramayana

  • Many Gitas

    Many Gitas

    While Gita popularly refers only to Bhagavad Gita, there are many ‘Gitas’ in Indian literature. …

  • Wheeling through Space and Time

    Wheeling through Space and Time

    In philosophy, the wheel represents time as well as space…

  • Footprints of Pilgrims

    Footprints of Pilgrims

    The idea of Bhaarat is an ancient one, known to every Indian. It is not a political entity, but it is certainly an economic entity well known to pilgrims and traders…

  • Hearing Sita’s Silence

    Hearing Sita’s Silence

    Draupadi as she screams for blood and demands vengeance, and not the quiet Sita who bears the brunt of Ram’s rule-following and decision-making…

  • How do you tell a story like the Ramayana?

    How do you tell a story like the Ramayana?

    The epic is like a river. It flows where it will, resisting narrow interpretations…

  • Desperately Seeking a Role Model

    Desperately Seeking a Role Model

    In many ways our quest for the perfect role model failed us because life is not perfect and humans are not perfect…

  • Corporate Snitch

    Corporate Snitch

    You need to ask yourself why do you really want to do it?…

  • Appraising our values

    Appraising our values

    The appraisal system reveals how good, or bad, the organization is…

  • When a dog wept in Ayodhya

    When a dog wept in Ayodhya

    What was the mystery?…

  • The weak in the pack

    The weak in the pack

    For the cynic, battlegrounds are truth; playgrounds are fantasy…

  • The Great Forest Exile

    The Great Forest Exile

    Some events are actually blessings in disguise,though few lack the vision needed to perceive this…

  • Lakshman’s wife goes to sleep

    Lakshman’s wife goes to sleep

    A brother’s devotion; a wife’s obedience and surrender…

  • The Devil’s Concubine

    The Devil’s Concubine

    We seem to be unaware of the fact that you cannot call up the Devil and expect him to behave…

  • The burden of obligation

    The burden of obligation

    What we sow today,is what we hope, we shall reap,tomorrow…

  • Jungle of Misfortune

    Jungle of Misfortune

    The choice has always been ours – triumph like Ram or cry foul like the Pandavas !…

  • Rules do not make Ram

    Rules do not make Ram

    We may have emerged out of the jungle but can we truly say we have evolved ??…