Krishna and Narakasura: The Tale of Dharma Asserting Over Adharma
Naraka Chaturdashi, the fourteenth day of the darker fortnight of the month of Ashvayuja is celebrated as the day of Narakasura’s deliverance in the hands of Lord Krishna. As children, we have all heard of this story where we are told that Good prevails over evil. While it seems so at a macro level, the words good and evil are often used as a reductionist More...
Understanding Manu Smriti-I: Women and Freedom
पिता रक्षति कौमारे भर्ता रक्षति यौवने । रक्षन्ति स्थाविरे पुत्राः न स्त्री स्वातन्त्र्यमर्हति More...
Prana, desha, anna: the modes of spiritual agriculture-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”LAfrXRo01ZwQxlfXtjhVMrZR7jgPLOKF”] Taking the yajnas and the injunctions about “annadana” as pointers to the size of a society that placed demands upon agricultural production, More...
No Mr. Devdutt Pattanaik, Krishna was not a negligent father
This is a Rebuttal to Devdutt Pattanaik’s article published in Economic Times and subsequently in his website Devdutt.com titled ‘Children of the Great’ published in the category of applied-mythology and in More...
Sports and Menstruation: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge- I
It is hard enough to talk about menstruation as it is. Add sports to this, and we have more questions than answers. Have you ever wondered why an ace sportswoman suddenly loses to a newcomer on a big match? Or how More...
Women In Indian history: A Few Vignettes From Epigraphy
The author would like to thank Nicole Elfi for her assistance in researching and compiling the inscriptions mentioned in this article. Indian civilization and culture, many-faceted and infinitely involved by nature, More...
Demystifying Tantra-IV: Shakta tantras, Kaula tantras, Mantrashastra and Nibandhas
[contextly_sidebar id=”FuK9o27OYL3qGG4wIfNakWo3W2dMil45″] In the previous article, we had started an exercise of classifying tantric texts to help us make sense of the diversity of traditions, and to More...
Revisiting Asoka- III: Ashoka The Terrible
[contextly_sidebar id=”9fNbdtifJBTRSuJJyFO8QXdx2e2Cla2v”] Though Bindusara’s ministers had preferred Ashoka to Sushima and helped him to come to power, they did not hold him in high regard and were More...
Understanding Navaratri through Vedanta
Navaratri or the festival of nine nights is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Hindus across the world. There is a diversity in the way the festival is celebrated in various parts of the country, More...
Book Review: Sati by Meenakshi Jain
Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain (Amazon India, Amazon) In many ways this book documents the birth of atrocity literature and its first application More...