The Practice of Nose-Cutting in the Ancient World
In the list of bizarre misinterpretations of ancient Indian thought by Devdutt Pattanaik, one could add his reading of the Śūrpaṇakhā episode in the Rāmāyaṇa, as evident from this tweet: “After 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...
क्या भारत महिला विरोधी था : विदेशी लेखको के तर्कों की जांच पड़ताल |
प्रस्तावना : ‘यत्र नारस्य पूज्यन्ते,रमन्ते तत्र देवता‘ अर्थात जहां नारी का सम्मान 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...
Nari – an exploration in ancient etymology
“यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः” A very famous sentence from Manusmṛti (3/56) . Though it has been always difficult More...
Hindu View of Menstruation- II: Menstruation as Austerity and Self-purification
[contextly_sidebar id=”WbA9BfmCnyV3bb3XVkWCyl1odybPYUyq”] In the previous article, an examination into the facet of Ashaucha (impurity) associated with Menstruation was undertaken and it was shown how More...
Hindu View of Menstruation- I: Menstruation as Ashaucha
[contextly_sidebar id=”z2IqVwKIXDaKKVWjrZ6aGpTSDD7yTInx”] In the previous article, an examination of the various menstruation practices prevalent among major religions and cultures across the world was More...
This Women’s Day a big shout out to the stay-at-home mom
It’s a Sunday and she’s got up maybe a little later than usual but not late enough to forget cuddling her grand kids and playing with them in the bed. She makes tea for everyone, cooks breakfast, chats with More...
Status of women in ancient India
This was contributed by Nirmal, and first published in Hinduism Today. They call it a bad rap when someone is wrongly accused of something, and in recent Indian history both women and Hinduism have suffered just More...