Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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View: Indians Need to Market the Yagna Model as Japan Markets Ikigai
Nowadays, everyone is talking about Ikigai, the Japanese way of living that involves finding your life’s purpose…What is often overlooked, however, is the larger context of this model…
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How Debates Are Increasingly Becoming a Duel
Debates are increasingly becoming a duel, so much so that if you align with one idea, the opposition can argue that you are a racist, a bigot, or that you are committing a hate crime. In other words, those debating enter the arena convinced the other is wrong…
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Tricking Ourselves Into Immortality
Humans have invented a smart way to outsmart death. We have split ourselves: a mortal part (who we are) and an immortal part (what we have). We can die but our possessions can outlive us. Thus through our property, we can be immortal…
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Magic Is Proof Of Sainthood
The common man seeks protection from negative forces and desires to attract positive ones. He wants prosperity, health, and success. These needs draw him towards holy men, gods, and various spirit deities whose powerful rituals give immediate benefit to material problems…
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The Golden Closet
No one wants to believe the unhappiness of the rich. The elite are privileged, say activists. They have all the agency in the world they argue, refusing to believe that gays and lesbians in Brahmin household face the same degree of torture as gays and lesbians in Dalit households. …
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If India Was Five Days Old
If the 5,000-year-old history of India can be reduced to five days, this is how events unfurled…
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On Jhatka and Halal
In the 16th and 17th centuries, with the rise of North Indian Vaishnavism, vegetarian food started to be seen as a counter to the Islamic way of eating, which is based on Halal meat, where a hooved animal is slowly bled to death — a way of eating that is mandatory in the Islamic world.…
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Our Unique Culture
When one steps back and looks at large trends in human history, one can see that to the west and east of India are two very distinct ideas, neither of which inform Indian ways of thinking. In that regard, Indian thought may be considered unique…
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A Supper With Bacchus In India
Both Jesus and Bacchus have an Indian connection. Many argue that Jesus visited India, probably Kashmir, and learnt Buddhism here and the concept of Sangha (Church). Likewise, in Greek mythology, Dionysus, god of wine, known to Romans as Bacchus, came from India, with wild chemicals, drugs, mushrooms, juices, wines, and alchemy that drove people, especially…
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When Inclusion Becomes Intrusion
The people who created the phrase “free speech” are the very same who have created “hate speech”. It took some time for those promoting “free speech” to realise that not all speech is good, decent and respectful…
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Debunked Invasion, Ignored Migration
Academics, who accuse others of using imaginary stories and manipulating social constructs, need funding from politicians who have an agenda, so they select facts and present ideas to suit the ideology. …
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Artificial Intelligent Slaves
So the origin of slavery and the origin of the working class really comes from the human desire not to produce one’s own food, but to outsource the work to others while enjoying its fruits…
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A King Called Trishanku
Once upon a time, there was a king called Trishanku who wanted access to Swarga, the paradise of the gods, located in the sky. But unfortunately, he was not good enough. …
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Nine Skylines of Bharat
The first skyline is the contemporary 21st-century glass and concrete skyscrapers of cities like Mumbai and Delhi…
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Gluttony Of Glamour
If one sees television serials today, you see this desire and gluttony for glamour. It’s not enough to be rich. It is important to show that you are rich. …
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How Brahmin Bureaucrats Thrived In Islamic Kingdoms
Hemadri Pandit feared the imminent arrival of Islam in the Deccan region. They had, by his time, already controlled the rich Ganga river plains. To protect the threatened Brahmin culture Hemadpant wrote the “Chatur-varga-chintamani ” (popularly known as Hemadri-shastra) – which lists activities to be performed to live a fulfilled life…