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When Does Krishna Justify War?
Published on 2nd October, 2021, in Economic Times. Mahatma Gandhi famously argued that Bhagavad Gita …
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Does Krishna Take the Viratrupa In the Gita To Intimidate?
Who is a Hindu? Does Krishna take the Viratrupa in the Gita to intimidate? Published …
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Krishna and the Eloping Women
Published on 31st January, 2021, in Mid-day. We live in times where many people cannot …
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Financial lessons from Satyabhama
Published on 27th June, 2020, in the Economic Times. Krishna was raised by cowherds and …
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The Love-God’s Mother
Published on 5th April, 2020, in Mid-day Between the 5th and 10th century C.E., we …
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Dharma focuses on empathy, not justice
Who is a Hindu? Published on 4th August, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror Once upon a …
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Who is a good Hindu father?
Published on 23rd June, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror Indians are obsessed with their mothers. An …
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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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Who is a Hindu? Why do intellectuals scorn Hindu deities?
Hindus as it doesn’t comply with their preconceived notions of what god and religion should be…
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Misreading Gita As Motivation
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophy being presented in the middle of a battleground…
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8 stories about Lord Krishna you have never heard before
In his new book, Shyam, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik finally puts together the whole story of Krishna. What you will read below is not an excerpt from the book, but eight things that Devdutt himself learned about one of Hinduism’s most popular gods…
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The Gita without the Mahabharata
However, when we remove the Gita from the Mahabharata we miss out on the context. And so, miss out much of the learnings…
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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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Why is Holi celebrated more in north India than south India?
Holi is indeed celebrated mostly in north India, not south India. No one knows the reason why…
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Radha or Meera?
People… are unable to distinguish the mythic past from the historical past…
