Indra

Khushwant Singh (1915- ) was born in a village called Handali ( now in Pakistan). He pursued education from the Government College, Lahore followed by at King’s College, Cambridge University and at the Inner Temple in London. He initially chose to be a lawyer by profession and had practiced at the Lahore High Court for years. Later on he joined the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in 1947. He even left this job and started an illustrious career as a journalist with the All India Radio in…

Personal Business Model Key Resources I am very interested in Mathematics, Physics, and Logic. These interests make me very logical, precise, and thoughtful, which are useful skills in my line of work. I work in Software Development; therefore, I am obviously also interested in Computer Science. Being a female with these interests makes me relatively unique in my field. Currently, I am the only female on the entire development staff in my company. Sometimes, I view this as a challenge to my…

have purchased a 300 ml Pepsi and gone home happy (excluding the Rs. 2 that shopkeepers charge for refrigerating it). Fast forward 12 years and on would have to shell out Rs.15 to purchase the same 300ml Pepsi bottle. What happened? One would think Indra Nooyi has fleeced us, but in reality, the value of money has reduced. This is attributable to inflation. Inflation is defined as a sustained increase in the general level of prices for goods and services. Quite literally, the beast of…

India had established trade cultural and political relations with Southeast Asian kingdoms. Influence of Indian civilization became most powerful among them and in Southeast Asian mainland. The people of Southeast Asia are said to have moved from southern China to southwards. Most forms of Hinduism are henotheistic where they recognize a single deity, and view other Gods reflection of the supreme God. These kinds of religions have traditionally been among the world’s most religiously tolerant…

Aiteraiya Brahmana mentions how the king was created for discharging the vital function of peace maintenance of the state. Gods decided to create a king in the form of a man by taking specific qualities from different deities such as strength from Indra, victory from Vishnu, sacrifice from Vaisravana etc. Kautilya in his Arthaśāstra talks about how the king was supposed to save his people by following dandniti, which was inflicting punishment on wrong doers and to also furnish his opportunities…

Possession is a challenging topic to dissect. From one end of the world to the other, from one point in the past to the present almost every culture/civilization has recorded accounts of possession. The perception of these various possession accounts, however, can be described as polar opposites of each other. Some cultures view possession as a positive experience to connect humans with the divine, no matter what divine matter they call their God. While others believe all types and forms of…

The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

Na tha kuch to Khuda tha, kuch na hota to Khuda hota Duboya mujh ko hone ne, na hota main to kya hota - Mirza Ghalib Baba Ramdev once emphatically put down his ideas against homosexuality in words, ‘had God been in favour of homosexuality, he would not have created two sexes’. He also equates homosexuality as mental illness, which he proposes to cure through yoga. However, Ramdev is just one among many faces in our society who argue vehemently…

There are many ethical issues throughout the human race which are approached differently by each religion. With the ethical issue of abortion and euthanasia, Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism, and Christianity all have different and similar views about this huge debate in society today. Hinduism, being the root of many religions, is the world’s oldest major religion till this day. With most ancient religions, outsiders were the ones who appointed a name for a discovered group of beliefs. The name…

Vishal Nath Indian Art and Architecture, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Interconnectedness between Lotus, Pillar, Tree and Serpent in early Indian…