Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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The Rise of the Indian Goddess
Published on 14th July, 2022, in The Hindu. How old are the goddesses of India? …
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Metaphor Of Three Goddesses
Published on 11th July, 2021, in Mid-day. Hindu mythology uses metaphor of human relationships to …
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Hinglaj Mata In Pakistan
Published on 22nd November, 2020, in Mid-day. We often forget that there are still many …
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The Origins of Bharat Mata
Published on 22nd November, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror. Every Indian village is personified as a …
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Sarna, the Harappan Tree Goddess
Published on 16th August, 2020, in Mid-day. One of the things in the about-4,000-year-old Harappan …
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The Village Temple Co-operative
Published on 29th March, 2020, in Mid-day In ancient India, the village fields did not …
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A Brief History of Goddess Worship
Published on 8th March, 2020, in Mid-day Harappan civilisation, which thrived over 4,000 years ago, …
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A Pair Of Goddesses
Published on 9th February, 2020, in Mid-day Across India, there are many temples where the …
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Goddess of “X” factor
Published on 29th December, 2019, in Mid-day In temples like Jagannath Puri and in many …
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Shakti within, Durga without: Different aspects of power
Published on 29th November, 2019, in The Economic Times Shakti and Durga are two words …
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Shakti or Shaktiman?
Published on 13th October, 2019, in Mid-day I was recently trolled by a group of …
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A cluster of goddesses
Published on 29th September, 2019, in Mid-day In the Vedas, one does find references to …
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Other meanings of a lotus
The lotus plays a critical role in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain mythologies, in fertility rituals as well as monastic orders…
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Who is a Hindu? Making of a Hindu king
The king brings order. But how does one establish himself as a ruler?…
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The sacred form of Kashi
In Kashi, the river Ganga, which normally runs from the Himalayas to the sea in the south, takes a turn and moves northwards. This reverse flow of the Ganga is considered spiritually significant because it is believed that one can manifest certain tantric ideas in such places…
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The gallery of female rogues
Women can be dangerous forces of nature, or hypersexual beings, who take away the power of men, chain them to the material world and prevent them from walking the spiritual path…
