Dussehara changes nothing because we haven’t really changed
The locally erected Ravan is barely hundred yards away and I can see it clearly from my seventh floor balcony. I can see that scintilla growing into an enveloping fire… but before I could feel any oy at this symbolic annihilation of evil, I hear this song loud clear… ‘kar chale hum fida jaan-o-tan saathiyon...
No deadline for truth. Review of ‘The Armour of God’
This book was one tough read, I must admit. Just a little more than hundred pages of a crazy mix of mythology, mystery, and meddling theories… and yet I progressed at a very slow pace. There were times I felt I was a professor at a university and reading a term paper that had references...
The birth of Ganga
‘I’ve read somewhere that even River Ganga is a Goddess,’ asked my ten year old nephew, ‘can this be true?’ I told him that stories from mythology were all full of bits of truth and bits of a writer’s fantasy. My nephew nodded his head and said nothing because my relaxed posture told him that...
