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In ancient times, ‘itihasa’ meant stories ‘witnessed’ by the storytellers. So Ramayana is...
In ancient times, ‘itihasa’ meant stories ‘witnessed’ by the storytellers. So Ramayana is...
In a crime, the victim accuses the villain. But when the villain counter-accuses the victim and...
In Kushan coins, minted over 1,800 years ago, we come across images of a woman holding the horn of...
If you travel to Cambodia, you will come across a folklore that a sage from India known as...
The Vedic people worshipped celestial beings known as devas. They also worshipped their ancestors...
The Rig Veda has about 1,000 hymns composed as groups of Indo-Aryans migrated in waves from the...
It stands on top of a hill and looks like a fort, until you notice the temple-like structures on...
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 holiness of Kashi, aka Varanasi, is perhaps related to its geography. In Kashi, the river...
We all have an innate need to anchor ourselves. How we do it varies—some pray, others meditate...
Bhaga is a Vedic god. Not much is known about him except that he was one of the 12 solar gods, the...
We talk a lot about the body, mind, and spirit. But rarely do we give the latter two as much...
Can women also chant the Gayatri Mantra? First of all, I must tell you, the question is worded...