Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Three Global Gifts From Indian Civilisation
Published on 14th August, 2022, in Mid-day. Culture creates ideas. Civilisation shares ideas. Can India …
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Two Gods In Our Brain
Published on 26th June, 2022, in Mid-day. We are familiar with that false idea that …
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Why Did Medieval Indian Cavalries Shun the Parthian Shot In Archery?
Published on 17th June, 2022, in The Hindu. In one retelling of the epic Ramayana, …
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Out of the Woods
Published on 20th May, 2022, in The Hindu. The word ‘history’ as we know it …
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How Brahma Lost His Position
Published on 25th April, 2021, in Mid-day. In Vedic times, 3,000 years ago, Brahma referred …
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Why Is There No Judgement Day in Hinduism?
Who is a Hindu? Why is there no Judgement Day in Hinduism? Published on 11th …
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Horned Demons and Rebels
Published on 17th January, 2021, in Mid-day. The image of a horned, White man storming …
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Donkey’s Curse and Cross
Published on 25th October, 2020, in Mid-day. In many parts of India, especially in Maharashtra …
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The Treacherous Truth
Who Is a Hindu? The Treacherous Truth Published on 11th October, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror. …
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Seven Abrahamic influences on contemporary Hinduism
Published on 2nd February, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror When someone passes away and people say, …
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A Different Hinduism
Published on 19th January, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror Hinduism, as expressed by Adi Shankaracharya 1,200 …
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Sarama, the first doggess
Published on 12th January, 2020, in Mid-day The word ‘bitch’ has a very sharp biting …
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Designing the Surya Namaskar
Many historians trace Surya Namaskar, the popular yoga exercise, to yoga teachers of Mysore, who were influenced by Swedish health practices in the last century. …
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As you sow, so you may not reap
Our entire life is about repaying debt’s incurred in previous lifetimes and avoiding a generation of new debts…
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The Fragility of the Ego
When I wrote an article pointing to the misogynist rules of Vinaya Pitaka, the discipline …
