Distortions, Errors, Misrepresentations – Devdutt Pattanaik’s Mahabharata
Devdutt Pattkanaik is one of India’s bestselling authors on Hinduism today. He has a breezy, eay-to-read style, packaged for consumption by today’s urban Hindu who may have little time to delve deeper into More...
Tales from the Mahabharata – Black, White, and Coloured Too
The Mahabharata has lived for thousands of years for the reason that it serves as that vast ocean human emotions in which everyone can pour their own understanding and find acceptance without judgment. There is More...
Brahma’s Paradox
What is a paradox? According to Wikipedia, a paradox is “is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently-self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.” As More...
Book Review: Black Money and Tax Havens by R Vaidyanathan
“Black Money and Tax Havens” by R Vaidyanathan can be purchased from Amazon. The subject of black money, and tax havens that act as conduits for such black money, has been the topic of intense fascination More...
Book Review: Aadhaar, A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution
Aadhaar, A Biometric History of India’s 12-Digit Revolution by Shankkar Aiyar is available for purchase on Amazon and Flipkart. This book is perhaps the most detailed and comprehensive biography of Aadhaar and More...
Book Review: The Corporation that Changed the World by Nick Robins
The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins is available on Amazon. The first multinational corporation the world saw was also the most rapacious More...
Book Review: Natural Enmity, by Ashay Naik
The book “Natural Enmity- Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Panchatantra [Book 1]” by Ashay Naik is available for purchase from Amazon. Ashay Naik’s book, “Natural Enmity – Reflections More...
‘Rama and Ayodhya’ and ‘The Battle for Rama’, by Meenakshi Jain
This review relies on material from both “Rama and Ayodhya” and “The Battle for Rama” on the Ayodhya dispute by Meenakshi Jain [contextly_sidebar id=”THIF177BhAXIzBM0lcogZf3CQLk7l9SN”] Circumstantial More...
Kurukshetra, a travelogue – 1
The Grant Trunk Road – possibly the oldest surviving highway in the world – starts out in what is now Bangladesh, makes its way through the Gangetic plains, crosses Delhi, and moving northwards, passing More...
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[contextly_sidebar id=”RlZoa8mDip7en47PX3a93AUQTXuSFUZ4″] This article has been translated into Gujarati by Hiren Dave. મહાભારતની આ કથા નું સંધાન હરિવંશ More...