శ్రీదేవీ నవరాత్రులు
శ్రీదేవీ నవరాత్రులు పవిత్రమైన రోజులు అంటే మనిషి తనను తాను పవిత్రం చేసుకోవడానికి, More...
పురాణాలు–నేడు ఎలా తెలుసుకోవాలి?
గతవారంలో దేవీనవరాత్రులను వివరించే సందర్భంలో పురాణాల ప్రస్తావన వచ్చింది. వీటిగురించి More...
Book Review: Avishi by Saiswaroopa Iyer
Avishi: Vishpala of Rig Veda Reimagined by Saiswaroopa Iyer is available for purchase on Amazon Kindle. Avishi by Saiswaroopa Iyer is a fictional re-telling of a female warrior Vishpala who appears in a few verses More...
Vedānga: The limbs of Vedic knowledge
The meaning of Saṃskrta (Devanāgarī: संस्कृत) word Veda (Devanāgarī: वेद) means knowledge of primordial origins, which Rishi-s (Devanāgarī: ऋषि) gathered over the time through More...
Secularism in India: History, Implications and Alternatives
India officially became a secular nation in 1976 with the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution of India enacted in 1976. [1] [2] But what does secularism mean? Unlike the West which is very clear about the core tenets More...
The Queen who cursed a God: An excerpt from an upcoming book
Gandhari screwed her eyes shut behind her blindfold. She shrunk her eyes into their sockets, withdrawing as far into herself as she could. If she could, she would have squeezed her ears shut. She shrank into More...
A Memo about Women in Mahabharata
A recent controversy has erupted in Google with an employee writing an internal memo against gender diversity and equality. Its now known as the anti-diversity memo. This memo was 10 pages long and has been going More...
The perils of textual transmission: decapitation and recapitulation
Prologue Gaṇeśa as Vyāsa’s scribe has found popular but not critical acceptance. Yet, complicated issues regarding the text, its transmission,and its reception are revealed by paying attention to this story. More...
Rechurning Turbulent Waters of Mahabharata Studies: Removing Poison, Revealing Nectar
[contextly_sidebar id=”6C2ft0dboWfVALCadsOgL5mdBA37Uztt”] Two weeks back, I received several quizzical looks when people found out that I had traveled from New York to Delhi for a 4-day workshop on the More...
Mahabharata as a manual of Advaita Vedanta
[contextly_sidebar id=”HNd2i4bMWNuun0iJ25Hfz2r2ltOWm0EL”]I recently attended a four-day workshop titled “The Mahabharata as Itihasa”, which was not only enlightening for its exposition of the Mahabharata, More...