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WHERE THE EARTH IS THE GODDESS!
The Smiling Mother of Hassan India’s Most Extraordinary Temple Opens Its Doors Just Once a Year. There is a place in Karnataka where a goddess chooses to live not in carved stone, not in gilde…
An Incomplete Field Guide to the Bengali Gentleman: The Bhadralok in His Native Habitat!
(With Footnotes, Digressions, and Appropriate Melancholy) The Bhadralok (homo bengalicus respectable) is a creature of remarkable consistency. Across one hundred and fifty years of seismic historica…
Savitri: The Epic That Wrote Its Author!
(On Sri Aurobindo’s Supreme Work — Its Brilliance, Its Power, and Why It Matters) A couple of years ago, I found myself in Auroville -- that strange, luminous township in Tamil Nadu th…
The Essence of Savitri!
Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri is considered one of the longest epic poems in the English language, consisting of nearly 24,000 lines, making Savitri an incarnation of Divine Grace who battles Dea…
The Eternal Mother!
When a hymn of forgiveness becomes the deepest tribute to motherhood. — — — ✦ — — — Across cultures and centuries, one truth remains unbroken: the mother forgive…
“To Strive, To Seek”: When Skyfall Becomes Tennyson’s Ulysses on Screen!
Tap above to watch the full video now! On Screen Possibly like legions, I am also a huge fan of James Bond films. The films offer not just escapism via entertainment, but a consistent world w…