On sites like Quora and in many of the whatsapp forwards in Indian communities, it is frequently claimed that Tulsi Das mentioned the distance between the sun and the earth in the Hanuman chalisa, a devotional poem. Many a times, this particular “fact” is touted as a proof that India had this particular “ancient wisdom” […]
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Creation stories – why do we believe?
Today, let us take a trip down Greek “history” lane, approximately dated thousands of years ago. In the beginning (of universe) was Hecatoncheires (Greek for thousand headed, thousand eyed creature). From him formed the universe and he formed the human society. His mouth formed the Athens (upper class), Metics were his arms (middle class), freedmen […]
Krishna – Why the wait?
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥ परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥ (Whenever there is decay of virtue and prevalence of wickedness, I manifest myself. To establish virtue, to destroy evil, to save the good (people), I come in different ages. ) I vividly remember […]
Soul – Dragon in my garage
I recently came across Carl Sagan’s book: The Demon-Haunted World. Sagan hypothesizes a claim of a person that he has a dragon in his garage. On further challenging the person about test-ability of such a claim, it is then clear that this dragon cannot be seen or detected by any means possible. Sagan then says […]
BJP – Like king like subjects ?
Way back in 2014, Indian prime minister Modi claimed that India had foundations of plastic surgery & genetic science. If you do not believe me, watch him speak here. Translation says “We worship Lord Ganesha. There must have been some plastic surgeon at that time who got an elephant’s head on the body of a […]