Whose Miracle?
There was once a guru who attracted many disciples. When he died his devotees did not wish his sect to come to an end. There was a young scholar who had served the guru and who happened to be considered wise. The disciples made him the new guru and offered him all the reverence which they used to offer to their departed guru. The new guru, by his learning, More...
Shakti is Waking Up: A Photo-Essay
Stifled by her own fears, trapped in her own powerlessness, and caught in her own vulnerability, she didn’t even realize how deep she was getting into a pattern of life that would soon be an all-enveloping, a More...
Journey of a Hindu from Nigeria: My Tirtha to Bharat
I was born in Calabar, Nigeria into an indigenous African family. My parents had embraced Hinduism in the 1970s and Bharat remained my dream since then. A little while back, I decided to visit Bharat and check out More...
Some Lessons from Mahabharata
The Mahabharata as a great epic is relevant even today. It is called fifth Veda as it encompasses literally all things “good” and “evil” in our society. Delving deep into the psychology and the attributes More...
A Beginner’s Account of Bhakti
जय श्री राधे कृष्ण राधे कृष्ण राधे गोविंद (Jai shri Radhey Krishna Radhey Krishna Radhey Govinda) As I sat in front of the garbha griha of the More...
A tale of two men: A misogynist pig and the first feminist
Two men[i]. Two different scholarly readings. The first man A Crown Prince. Later a King. He vowed to be a one-woman man, have only his one beloved wife as his Queen though it was customary in his times to have More...
Mahabharata Immersion: An agyaata vaas
The Pandavas spent the final year of their exile incognito called as the agyaata vaas. They did so in King Virat’s kingdom taking on different identities and serving the Kingdom such that they would not recognized More...
Value of Absence
In this post, I start with verse from Dakshinamoorthy stotram, and the influence it had in my understanding of John Cage’s 4.33, Fred Sandbacks string sculptures and how this in turn has lead to my germinating More...
Raja Rao Experienced “India as an Idea”
Raja Rao was my professor when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976 -1981. I started college after spending four years in India, arriving at the Indo-Pak border on December More...
Who Really got the Divine Mango: Gaṇeśa or Kārthikeya?
Dhārmic traditions rarely stipulate hard and fast rules which makes them the most natural and the most evolved of all traditions. This freedom is what paves the way to higher possibilities in life experiences. More...