To understand Hindu mythology, it is critical to understand the metaphor of forests. Forests...
The simple answer is, we can either be reborn (punar-janma) and experience life once again, or be...
Animals don’t tell stories. Plants don’t tell stories. Rocks don’t tell stories. They don’t...
The Vedas, which are over 3,000 years old, refer to a deity called Rudra who is fierce and feared...
The image of the buffalo-slaying lion-riding Durga starts appearing in Hindu mythology only in the...
More than a decade has flown by but the memories of our visit to Manali, soon after my board exams,...
Music, by its very nature, is boundless. It flows effortlessly across eras, blurring geographical...
The Pandavas and the Kauravas were about to go to war. Both approached Krishna to help. ‘Me...
We’ve all grown up listening to stories of Lord Krishna. He’s a butter thief, a mischief-maker,...
As I sit here and write this piece on sacrifice, someone somewhere has skipped their meal to feed...
After the victory at Kurukshetra, after 36 years of being kings, the Pandavas renounced the world...
Many of the fairy tales told around the world can be traced to India, leading many scholars to...
Among the many things that come to our mind when we think of Hinduism, polytheism is one. The...
The biblical, or Abrahamic, worldview informs the Western view, just as the Hindu worldview informs...
In the Uttara-khand (later section) of the Padma Purana, Shiva tells Parvati that Vishnu told...
Sipping holy water three times, while repeating God's name, is believed to make one pure. It is the...
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy...
Na jayate, mriate, wa kadchaith, na ahiam na jayate mriyate va kadacin nayam bhutva bhavita va na...
In the Indian epic Mahabharata, non-violence has been described as the highest duty of an...
