Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator

Stories

  • May the Most Fertile Win

    May the Most Fertile Win

    Stories are told to make us aware that what matters more than quantity is quality…

  • 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…

  • My US Trip, Oct ’13

    My US Trip, Oct ’13

    A few details regarding my trip (October 2013) to the United States of America…

  • Ignite my hunger

    Ignite my hunger

    To reach out to any consumer, we need to understand human hunger and its triggers…

  • When Shiva told a story

    When Shiva told a story

    “Once upon a time………..”…

  • My wife is a frog

    My wife is a frog

    Stories about frogs in Indian mythology…

  • Outsourcing the storytelling grandmom

    Outsourcing the storytelling grandmom

    Perhaps,it is not about the stories that are told but more about what they stand for-the entire gamut of values,identity,morals,oral traditions…

  • One life across many epics

    One life across many epics

    The same undercurrent flows through subtly in all our myths,stories,legends,epics,tales…

  • The conquest of Fear

    The conquest of Fear

    An emotion that helps us survive and thrive but is most undesirable…

  • The tale of two epics

    The tale of two epics

    A hypothesis that the Ramayana and Mahabharata were reactions to Buddhism…

  • Elusive Truth

    Elusive Truth

    Who makes the truth? Can truth be made?…

  • Walk Through The Vedas

    Walk Through The Vedas

    Over 3000 years of transmission through story,song,symbol and ritual…

  • Five For Draupadi

    Five For Draupadi

    On a woman with five husbands…

  • An Avatar without Soul

    An Avatar without Soul

    What do we wish to give our children – the cosmetics of a story or its soul?…

  • Talking Heads

    Talking Heads

    His laughter is not the kind we want to hear,for it mocks us and reminds us of what only we and he know…

  • A Mythic Inheritance

    A Mythic Inheritance

    Mythology is not about gods killing demons…

  • Lakshmi’s Owl

    Lakshmi’s Owl

    Is this mysterious companion of the goddess, her twin elder sister, Alakshmi, goddess of strife?…

  • Everybody tells a story

    Everybody tells a story

    Storytelling informs us how to see the world…