Shiva stood up, slowly. His movements deliberate, trance-like. His eyes were still half-closed, they always were. His forehead glowing with a soft crimson light, his throat blue with the ‘halahal’ he had swallowed for saving the world from destruction. The moon glistened softly from behind his head framed by the furious locks. The lord of the moon, the Somshekhar, stood up and raised his arms …
Category: Stories from Indian Religious History
Gangadhar: Part II of III
Bhagirath’s great grandfather was Sagar, King Bharat’s illustrious son. He had been without progeny till he had performed great tapa and had pleased Brahma, who gave him the boon of progeny from his two wives. His eldest son Asmanja, had been a wayward prince and had reveled in acts of cruelty towards man and beast alike. When he did not mend his ways even after marriage, and …
Gangadhar: Part I of III
The eight cardinal directions resonated with the sound of ‘Namah Shivay’, high in the cold environs of the Mount Kailash, the land of the Gods, the ‘Devbhumi’. No one sang it; no singing was necessary; nature herself sang praise to her lord, the Mahadev, the master of all realms. Near the very top of the mountain, on a stone platform, in front of a cave hewn …
Time travel — From Revati to Einstein’s Relativity and beyond (Part 3)
In April this year ( 2018), the International Astronomical Union on the recommendations of NASA scientists, named a crater on the largest moon of planet Pluto — ‘Revati’ , on — ” a character in the Hindu epic narrative Mahabharata “ I am sure most of us have no idea of who Revati was in Mahabharata, atleast I didn’t. I looked up to find …
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Sec 377, LGBTQ Rights and Lessons from Indian History
The Honorable Supreme Court’s recent admission that it may have erred in 2013 when it reversed a Delhi High Court order from 2009 decriminalizing homosexuality is a shot in the arm for all LGBTQ activists. It is also an honest confession by India’s top court that archaic laws, dating back to 1861, which are not only primitive in thought, but also liable to be …
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Ganapati: A Microsurgeon’s God
Microsurgery is a young speciality, being not more than forty or fifty years old. It is the surgery of the structures too small to be seen by the human eye. The magnifying loupe or the operating microscope is the microsurgeon’s constant companion, operating without them is a near impossibility. Microsurgery was born sometime in the 1970s and has grown by leaps and bounds since …
