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Hindu Parliament and Churning the Ocean of Milk
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author The design of the Parliament building in Delhi was based on yogini shrines…
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Dark secrets of the sewers of Harappa
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author Indians have an uncomfortable relationship with the sanitary system. We have permitted and…
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Menstrual Taboos Are Not Unique to Hinduism
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author In Kerala, there is the story of a group of boys who found…
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Can Gay Marriage Be Part of Hindu Culture?
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author Hindu culture forbids divorce. Yet Hindu personal laws permit divorce. Hindu culture allows…
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Who is a Hindu? Always and everywhere
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author When Draupadi was born from the firepit of her father’s yagnashala, according to…
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Is a Hindu prayer different from a Christian or Muslim prayer?
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author While it is fashionable to say that all religions are the same, and…
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What Alexander the Great learnt from a Hindu ascetic
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author As the stories came to an end, the gymnosophist smiled. “Such wonderful stories.…
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Old rishis, new rishis
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author Hindus believe that knowledge (“veda” in Sanskrit) comes not from a human source,…
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Rituals, not belief
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, valued secularism. But that did not stop…
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Who is a Hindu? Karma, caste and free will
By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author The other day, a journalist kept repeating over and over again how she…
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