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  • Gujarat’s Violent, Historical Relationship with Muslim Warlords

    Gujarat’s Violent, Historical Relationship with Muslim Warlords

    Published on 22nd April, 2023, in Times of India. Somnath, on the Gujarat coast, is …

  • Forgotten Ballads Of Indian Merchants

    Forgotten Ballads Of Indian Merchants

    Published on 1st April, 2023, in Economic Times. India was famous for trading with Southeast …

  • Temples of Swaminarayan

    Temples of Swaminarayan

    Published on 13th November, 2021, in Economic Times. Most Indians are familiar with Raja Ram …

  • The Treacherous Truth

    The Treacherous Truth

    Who Is a Hindu? The Treacherous Truth Published on 11th October, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror. …

  • How India favoured the kshatriya feudalism to market-based economies of vaishya

    How India favoured the kshatriya feudalism to market-based economies of vaishya

    The discomfort with all things associated with the market can be seen in India when holy men warn people not to be bhogi (seek satisfaction of desires), when desire for goods and services and ideas is what creates the market, with the goods provided by the craftsmen, the service by the shudras, and the ideas…

  • Chef Nala

    Chef Nala

    Once upon a time, there was a man who cooked so well that a woman decided to marry him… His name was Nala…

  • Did arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand years ago destroy Hindu culture?

    Did arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand years ago destroy Hindu culture?

    Published on 31st May, 2017, on www.dailyo.in . The arrival of Muslim invaders a thousand …

  • Epics as Novels

    Epics as Novels

    Most people in India are not familiar with the Sanskrit Ramayana or Mahabharata. We read popular versions…

  • Nathdwara God in the Haveli

    Nathdwara God in the Haveli

    To devotees, Shrinathji at Nathdwara is the swayambhu (self-created) and swarupa (self-image, not representation) of the seven-year old Krishna…

  • The everlasting flame

    The everlasting flame

    The agiary is off limits to non-Parsis, but the basis of the exclusion may be common to the Vedas and the Avesta…

  • Our relationship with wealth

    Our relationship with wealth

    In the Hindu Puranas, the problem is never with wealth. The problem is with our relationship with wealth…

  • Contextualising Is Key

    Contextualising Is Key

    Following habits of successful leaders only makes us pretenders…

  • My US Trip, Oct ’13

    My US Trip, Oct ’13

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

  • Babbling in India

    Babbling in India

    English is the new Sanskrit and the language of India’s creamy layer…

  • Food for the Kitchen Goddess

    Food for the Kitchen Goddess

    Food really does determine what we are and who we are !…