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Airavata's Head: Ganesha's Agricultural Connection

Parvati created a son from turmeric paste scraped from her body and ordered him to guard her cave. W...

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Airavata's Head: Ganesha's Agricultural Connection
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The Paradox of the Elephant-Headed God: How Ganesha Became Hinduism's Most Beloved Outsider

In a temple courtyard in Mumbai, a businessman touches his forehead to a clay elephant and whispers ...

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The Paradox of the Elephant-Headed God: How Ganesha Became Hinduism's Most Beloved Outsider
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Janmashtami Special: Rama and Krishna- The Dialectics of Dignity and Divine Play

Dividing life into two distinct perspectives is a natural characteristic of any religious philosophy...

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Janmashtami Special: Rama and Krishna- The Dialectics of Dignity and Divine Play
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Ancient Stories, Urgent Questions: Why I Wrote Two Plays

Some stories never really leave us. They return in new forms, wearing new clothes, speaking new lan...

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Ancient Stories, Urgent Questions: Why I Wrote Two Plays
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Tagore

The colours of my May are as yellow as the golden showers. The 7th of this month, the twenty-fifth d...

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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Tagore

The colours of my May are as yellow as the golden showers. The 7th of this month, the twenty-fifth day of Boishakh in the Bengali calendar, marked the...
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Entertainment

Lately, I find myself surprisingly content—perhaps even fortunate. I experienced the great stillness, that strange gift of witnessing how Brahma mig...
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Books

The final bell echoes through the book fair, and silence settles like dust. An artist alone in a hotel room after the curtain falls, packing costumes ...
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Masturbation

I haven’t been able to write even ten sentences together for nearly a year. The only thing I managed to write during this time was a letter to my co...
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Words

The word Deśa is an equivalent of the sky. The hr̥day, a parallel to the sky. I quite enjoy these linguistic games. In this way, the word “book”...
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Whispers of Laughter and Tears: Conversations

The way we react to news—do we ever bow down to the events in our own lives with the same intensity? Take the #DepressionKills wave that gripped us ...
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As our own global civilization struggles with questions of identity, belonging, and meaning across cultural boundaries, Ganesha's journey from local spirit to universal symbol offers unexpected insights. In an age of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, when we're creating new forms of hybrid existence, the ancient wisdom embedded in the elephant-headed god's impossible form may prove more relevant than ever. The question isn't whether Ganesha exists, but whether we can learn to see ourselves—fractured, contradictory, yet somehow whole—reflected in his knowing smile.
— The Paradox of the Elephant-Headed God: How Ganesha Became Hinduism's Most Beloved Outsider
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