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Tantra at the British Museum
A short review of the exhibition ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ which is currently on at the British Museum.
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Sexual Harassment in the Mahābhārata
Sexual harassment is an unfortunate reality in many societies, and this fact is also reflected in literature too. In the story of Śakuntalā, originally in the Mahābhārata, Śakuntalā becomes pregnant by Duryodhana who then initially refuses to acknowledge that he is the father. In the Rāmāyaṇa, too, Sītā chooses to accompany her husband Rāma into…
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Emotions and Indian sculpture
The American-British sculptor Jacob Epstein was a good friend of Ananda Coomaraswamy, who had some significant influence on him. The sculptures depicted above on the façade of (what is now) Zimbabwe House in London were designed by Epstein to represent a form of modernism which took influence from Indian classical sculptural traditions.
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Indra and Namuci
The well-known story of Indra and Namuci has been told and retold since Vedic time up until the present day.
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Nala, Rtuparna and their knowledge-exchange
Snakes or serpents appear prominently in many ancient literatures around the world. In ancient Egypt, Ouroboros is the snake that eats its own tail, perhaps representing the renewal of order out of disorder.
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Faizi, Akbar and Sanskrit literature
The Mughal period in India was a fascinating and intriguing period from the perspective of development and dissemination of Sanskrit literature.
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India, Africa and African Americans
Cultural exchange and interaction between African or African-origin people and Indian people has a long and important history
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On worshipping the sun as god
The sun has been worshipped as a deity in many of the major religious traditions in history, dating at least from the ancient Egyptian religion which worshipped the sun god 𒊑𒀀 (a.k.a. Re or Ra).
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Some technological worldviews
In our attempt to understand our universe and our place within it, thinkers of all periods and regions have deployed models borrowed from technological frameworks.
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Ethics and Action in Indian Literature
Dharma, religion and morality in the Mahabharata
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