Translations
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Emperor Xi a mandate of heaven
Xi Jingping seems to be creating heaven on earth, making China a powerhouse in geopolitics, restoring the glory of China since the infamous ‘hundreds years of shame’ in the 19th century.
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Maya and Myth
First City Magazine, New Delhi, July 2001. “Sex and violence are fundamentals of life. They rotate the cycle of life. Without sex, there is no life. There is violence every time we eat-when a fruit is plucked, a crop is…
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How Call me By Your Name reclaims Eden for gay people everywhere
Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar-nominated Call Me By Your Name, with brilliant use of narrative, visuals and music.
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Who is a Hindu? Economics of being Hindu
The Lingayats socio-cultural demand to be classified as different from Hindus throws up many interesting questions.
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Transgenders in Buddhism
After attaining Buddha-hood, the Buddha went to meet his mother in heaven, and share his wisdom with her. In many retellings, in her new life in heaven, Buddha’s mother is a god with a male body, for she had earned…
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Food is truth: What the Hindu gods are given to eat and why
Published on 19th July, 2016, on http://www.scroll.in . Why is anna, food, accorded so much importance in our culture? In Yoga-shastra, our body is called annakosha, that is, flesh formed from anna. Our flesh then becomes food for other animals.…
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Even the Gods played sport
We can safely say that sport in India began in both agricultural communities as well as martial communities.
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Bridging the many interpretations of the Ramayana across Southeast Asia and India
From the Ramakien in Thailand to the Ramaker in Cambodia, the eclectic interpretations of the story in Asean countries are worth recounting
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Using Puranas for politics
Politics may change but there is always a political enemy, and so the Puranas lend themselves to serve as communication and even propaganda tools to whip up popular sentiment.
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Were Hindus always casteist?
Note: the word caste is a European word for clan that is used for the Indian system of jati. The word jati, in turn, is confused with the Vedic system of varna.
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Listening to the Buddha’s hands
In the early days of Buddhism, Buddha was represented by a symbol: a footprint or a wheel or a pot or a tree.
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Marathi: The Book of Ram
Translation of The Book of Ram राम म्हणजे सामाजिक मूल्यांची जोपासना करणारा मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम| राम म्हणजे रघुवंशाचा वारस, सूर्यकुलातलं एक रत्न आणि विष्णूचा सातवा अवतार अनेक स्त्रीवाद्यांनी त्याला झिडकारलं, तर राजकारण्यांनी त्याला प्रचारासाठी वापरलं; पण त्यामुळे त्यांचं वैभव आणि त्याची…
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Tamil: 7 Secrets of Vishnu
Translated version of 7 Secrets of Vishnu For Hindus, Vishnu is God who inspires man to discover humanity by engaging with the world. Artists have visualized him with as curly-haired, dark complexioned man with a smile on his lips and…
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Tamil: 7 Secrets of the Goddess
Translated version of 7 Secrets of the Goddess Lakshmi massages Vishnu’s feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shiva’s chest. Is this female domination? Shiva is half a woman. Is this gender quality? Why then is Shakti never half…
