Navigate..

"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth."- Galadriel in Lord of the Rings

Whatever we call history will become myth someday in future, and whatever we call as myth had its history at some point in the past. Harvard University is going to offer classes on Ramayana and Mahabharata in the upcoming fall semester with the course titled, “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures". “The Indian epics are long and comp...

Koh-i-Noor, undoubtedly this is the most famous diamond among the Indians and in the Indian history. Though India had produced many diamonds, it has the special space in the pages of history. Well, the word Koh-i-Noor means “mountain of light” and it has a twin diamond, Darya-ye Noor, which means “ocean of light”. Though the Darya-ye Noor is the rarest kind of diamond, Koh-I-Noor has the great history over that. Coming to the technical details of Koh-i-noor, it has very rarest charact...

When I decided to write an article on Indian history, I wondered for a while, how can one write an article in a page or two about the history of humans for over 5000 years, about the land where all human pasts are still alive, about the story of India, the Incredible India! India is the only land on the earth where the unbroken chain of human history is there. So , I decided to split the article in to 4 parts, pre-literature, literature, pre-modern and modern histories of India. The first par...

When the world didn’t wake, we measured to 20^th part of a gram. when the world didn’t know where to live we constructed two stair buildings. Suddenly, what happened to the largest ancient civilization, the most advanced Bronze Age civilization and the civilization which has accounted for over five million population at its peak. Scientists said that the civilization existed between 3300BCE-1300BCE. What happened after that?? Does anybody knows?? The contemporary civilizations to the Indus...

Modern world has seen many wars, the biggest war that modern world had seen is World War II, which has accounted for 73 million causalities.  But, according to Indian mythology (for instance), Kurukshetra was the Great War that world has ever seen. According to Mahabharata, One billion 660 million and 20,000 men have fallen in this battle (Mahabharata, book 11, chapter 6, verses 7&8)¹.  As many people know Mahabharata has 18 parvas, among which 6^th, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th parvas deal with the Great...

Today morning I read a forward message which was like,

All the books in the world- The Bible, The Quran, and The Gita teach us to love each other but only Kama sutra explains exactly how!!!

Though it was in funny way, it conveys the right meaning. Making love merely doesn’t mean having sex with somebody. I’ve seen many people whose feelings getting weird by listening to very word KAMA SUTRA. Actually it is the one of the best text the world has ever produced. As you know, better than ou...