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Hinduism Beyond Vedas
Published on 20th December, 2020, in Mumbai Mirror. Hinduism is typically taught through a historical …
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When the Vedas Reached South
Published on 19th April, 2020, in Mid-day The mention of southern states is conspicuously absent …
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Dirghatama in Bihar, Bengal and Odisha
Published on 17th November, 2019, in Mid-day The Rigveda refers to a sage called Dirghatama. …
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Vedic stories are different from Puranic stories
Who is a Hindu? Published on 29th September, 2019, in Mumbai Mirror In the Vedas, …
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Ancient incest in the sky
In the Vedas, long before people knew about gods such as Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma, there was a story of how the god of heaven committed incest with the goddess of dawn, his daughter…
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Mountain of Vedas
Through stories of the mountain of Vedas and the blinking gods, Hindus were made aware of the scale of the universe and its wisdom, very different from the finite, closed word of ancient Greeks, inherited by the church…
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The hymns of the first Hindus
Beyond the codes, metaphors and allegories, the mantras of the Rig Veda reveal how the first Hindus engaged with the unknown…
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Epics about Women
In the Tamil epics, we see three kinds of women: the woman who has relationships with many men, the woman who has a relationship with one man, and the woman who has relationships with no man…
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Revisiting Vedic management
Were the Vedas concerned with management? Or were they concerned with some esoteric exotic doctrine that cannot be contaminated by mundane concerns like management?…
