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Explanation from mythology: Why people voted for Modi, Brexit and Trump — and against Arab Spring
Modern society works on the philosophy of equality. These verdicts are a vote for diversity…
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Misunderstanding Saraswati
In social sciences, the study of Lakshmi becomes economics and study of Durga becomes politics. The study of Saraswati becomes philosophy…
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What Alexander the Great learnt from a Hindu ascetic
For long have Europeans retold Indic mythologies. It is time for Indians to reverse the gaze…
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Why are Hindus so ritualistic?
As long as we are human, as long as we want to bind humans to a community, as long as we want to feel that life has a pattern and predictability, we need rituals…
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The Bahubali saga
The 57-feet-tall statue, built centuries ago, is still Karnataka’s pride…
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End of Enlightenment?
‘A WISE man is calm in fortune and misfortune. He does not separate good times and bad times. He lets go of sukkha, the feeling of joy, and dukkha, the feeling of sorrow.’…
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Reverse devotion
The most peculiar form of devotion is called reverse devotion, or devotion of the enemy. This is viparit-bhakti…
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Is samosa Indian, or Vedic?
Many ingredients and dishes came to India from foreign lands. Likewise, many ingredients and dishes went from India to foreign lands…
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Hiss of the PIO Bharat Tyagi
A small group of PIOs, Queen Victoria’s frozen-in-time children, imagine they must save India from Indians…
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Has Kalki arrived?
Whether Trump wins or not, his rise has stripped the West of all its moral snobbery, their strategic use of social justice frameworks to put other countries and cultures on the defensive…
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10 best mythological tales from around the world
Equality is not a rational concept, it is a subjective truth, a belief that comes to us from Abrahamic mythology. Likewise the idea of justice comes from Greek mythology…
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A Jain Jatayu
Many Jain scholars have retold the Ramayana epic. Often, there are tales on the past lives of many key characters…
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The gates of Dwarka
The Krishna in Dwarka has four arms, the upper arms holding the chakra on the left, the gada on the right, and the lower arms holding the shankha on the left and the padma on the right…
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The hermits of Samanar Hills
Devdutt Pattanaik hikes up a hill in Madurai to map its height in 2,500 years of Jain history in Tamil Nadu…
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Can we say that Hinduism’s Narasimha is like Hollywood’s Wolverine?
We often seek similarities between Indian and western stories. But we must probe the reason…
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Adinath Temple of Ranakpur
The Jain temple enshrines a sage, who has attained the highest state of realisation…
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The vessel of rasa
Typically, in India, we refer to an actor in a play or a character in a book as ‘patra’ which literally means vessel. Why?…
