Mythologist | Author | Speaker | Illustrator
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Wisdom of Seeds, Before Sanskrit
Published on 17th July, 2022, in Mid-day. In Indian mythology, two metaphors are used to …
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Beyond justice and forgiveness
Published on 3rd March, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror. The two ideas may shape our understanding …
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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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Vedic thunder, rain and frogs
Published on 26th August, 2018, in Mid-day. Parjanya is the Vedic god of rain and …
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Who is a Hindu? Indra: Entitled, insecure, dispensable
How the primary god and great warrior of the Vedas ended up as a minor Puranic god…
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The end of the Buddha’s clan
This story from the Bhaddasala Jatakas is very similar to the story of the death of the Yadava clan decades after the war at Kurukshetra between Pandavas and Kauravas…
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The Hindu concept of debt
This idea of a karmic balance sheet is not found in the Vedic period but emerges in the Upanishadic period, especially after the rise of monastic orders…
