Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Never-complete and Ever-Changing truths
The world is constantly changing. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing is fixed. Seasons change. Societies rise and fall. Contexts change. Reasons change. Values come and go. Meanings shift. So ‘the truth’ is never complete and always changing…
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Pink Things to Good People
We are conditioned to believe the mythology of ‘fairness and justice’ popularized in recent time, and yet despite the complex of well-meaning laws, bad things continue to happen to good people…
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Cradle of Monotheism
When empires came into being, emperors believed their god was the greater god, and he was the chosen man, and his people were the chosen people…
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Measuring Awareness and Attention
Modern management is based on the principle that only that which can be measured can be managed…
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Kill the Apsara
We have valorized the tapasvin who rejects seduction, provocation, allurement, pleasure, enchantment. This is the very essence of censorship…
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How we read mythology
To appreciate Hindu mythology, we have to agree to Hindu assumptions. That is difficult since the modern world is firmly based on Western assumptions…
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Wipe out my memories, please
Can we wipe it out? Yes, says yoga, when it recommends the eight-fold path…
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Dark Clouds Looming
The darkness was associated with the forest and fairness with the rain, darkness with wilderness and fairness with civilization. One was not better than the other. Both were needed for the circle of life…
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Palanquin for the King, or Boat for the People
How does a king, who is established through division, establish a kingdom that is united?…
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Elusive Ownership
When something belongs to me, I have the freedom to order it around. I also want to protect and nourish it…
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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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The Meaninglessness of Rituals
Rituals have no intrinsic meaning. But that does not mean they are not valuable…
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Whose Mission is it Anyway?
Every corporation is encouraged to have a mission statement. It is the common goal we are told that everyone has to align to…
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The Architecture of Fear
A knowledge of fear is critical in management if one accepts that humans are animals with imagination, who cannot be domesticated using reason…
