Mythology of equality
Is there equality in nature or not? The answer is complex. Nature has no favourites and every plant...
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Olympics began as tribute to...
The origins of the Olympic Games can be traced to a competitive sport played as a tribute to dead...
The metaphor of the forest
To understand Hindu mythology, it is critical to understand the metaphor of forests. Forests...
On stories we tell
Animals don’t tell stories. Plants don’t tell stories. Rocks don’t tell stories. They don’t...
Many happy Buddhas
A dramatic shift happened in Buddhism roughly 500 years after the historical Buddha. This dramatic...
The goddess of sailors
For such a vast coastline, Indians do not have much of sea mythology. Most images of boats in...
Who is a Hindu? Hindu ship of...
There is a famous philosophical problem popularly known as the ship of Theseus, or the Theseus’s...
The mountain of Vedas
The Brahmanas (religious texts) refer to manuals that connect Vedic hymns (mantras) to rituals...
Aggregation of Buddhist atoms
Aggregation of Buddhist atoms By Devdutt PattanaikThe fundamental difference between Hinduism and...