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Fang O' furyThe book display in the mall makes our scribe jump back involuntarily. It flaunts a massive fanged cobra wrapped around Shiva’s muscular ar...- Grinning gorgonAs for Medusa’s much-maligned drop-dead stare, only by looking at her through a reflection, from a mirror or a burnished shield, could one ...
- Wedded to a wood appleIn the traditional Newari culture of Nepal, which traditionally has had deep roots with Sikkim, the bael tree is part of a fertility ritual...
- Family of ManIshwara-nishtanchi mandiyali, a meeting of those who believe in the transcendent principle called Ishwara.Contrast this with the starker "f...
- Tricks or treats?Mangalore abounds in places of spirit worship, they have Annappa, Panjurli, Ullalthi, Varahi, Guliga, Koragajja, and Raktesswari.
- Festive FlyersBooted warblers chuck-chuck among the trees as your columnist walks in the garden. They come to Mumbai every winter all the way from centra...
- Full or Empty?Emptiness is a mode of perception in which one neither adds anything to nor takes anything away from the isness of the present.
- Live life king-sizeAnonagenarian friend was bereaved after 58 years of marriage. As a rationalist, his first impulse was to say no to funerary rituals.
- Moon and moneyLakshmiji's festival celebrates harvest and the end of monsoon with vigil kept during the night of the full moon (Sharad Purnima).
- The yogi and kingOf that vast empire, nothing remains today except some exquisite temples and impressive inscriptions.
- Easy to be WiseThe pseudoscience alternative to the feat would be to bestow qualities of the mythological Jupiter on to the newly-discovered Jove.
- World as a Vengi TreeWe are rafting on the river Kaveri that once marked the boundary between the rival kingdoms of Chalukyas and Pallavas.
- Beat brawn with brainsSwami Vidyaranya (‘Forest of Learning’) was the spiritual preceptor of the founders of the Vijayanagara Empire in the 14th century.
- Home FirePress coverage of the meteorite hit in Russia has this quote by sci-fi master Larry Niven, "Dinosaurs aren't around.
- We believe in God because God has endowed us with devine sense"We believe in God because God has supposedly endowed us with a special faculty called sensus divinitatis, or the divine sense."
- Lives of compassionGood friend and fellow columnist Vithal C Nadkarni informed us here a couple of days back how the Dalai Lama brought the house down during ...
- Flying flowerWhen your goddesses love to fly, don't put in the roof on their 'house'. That seems to be the logic of the stunningly superb roofless Chaus...
- Cosmic CoilsAn awesome nine-hooded serpent carved on a single sheet of limestone dominates the ruins of the Buddhist Stupa unearthed at Kanaganahalli i...
- Salt of the EarthThe traveller has two birthdays. The first celebrates his birth and the second his rebirth!
- God-builders versus deathImagine Moscow's Red Square without Lenin. It's like imagining Trafalgar Square without Nelson. But there's a difference. The British Naval...
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