Posts from the religion category.
We have grown up with certain identities so familiar that we rarely stop to examine them.Parvati is Shiva’s wife.She is Ganesha’s mother.She is the embodiment of Shakti.She is Durga. She is Kali.We know these names. We know the stories.But do we know Parvati?That question stayed with me while reading Parvati by Samar.Because the interesting thing about this novel is not that it tells us another st...
What would you be willing to give up if you genuinely believed that the one thing you were searching for could not be found in the life you were already living?That question stayed with me while reading If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir by Om Swami.Because the extraordinary thing about this memoir is not simply that a successful businessman became a monk.It is that the person who had seemingly acq...
We have all been there.We know Ramayana. We know Mahabharata. We have heard the Gayatri Mantra. We have grown up hearing words like Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Smritis and Shastras. We visit temples, celebrate festivals, perform rituals and sometimes confidently discuss “our culture”.Then someone asks a very simple question: “But where does all this come from?”And suddenly, the confidence disappea...
15th September 2018, a day before my birthday, my family hadn’t started celebrating Ganeshotsav yet in USA. My parents continue to manage from India after almost half a decade,I left my motherland. May be that guilt that day was overwhelming me and I had a moment I felt I stated the inevitable, having track record of miracles happening around me with the divine presence of Lord Ganesh. I was famou...
Every generation believes its struggles are unique.Maybe they are.Maybe they aren’t.Anxiety has a different name today. Overthinking has become a personality trait. Career pressure begins before adulthood. Social media has turned comparison into a daily habit. We carry entire conversations inside our heads long after they have ended.That is exactly where The Gita for Gen Z by Rania Sen begins.Not ...
There is an unwritten rule that many of us carry without realizing it: if someone speaks about meditation, they should probably live an austere life. If they drive a luxury car, enjoy technology, or practise a combat sport, their spirituality somehow feels less convincing. My Life, My Journey quietly dismantles that assumption.Jhuma Panda introduces herself as a yogini who drives a Jaguar, practis...
Some conversations refuse to end when the book closes. They linger quietly, waiting for another opportunity to resume. That is precisely how Immortal Talks — Book 2 unfolds. Having recently reflected on the first volume, I approached this one expecting new spiritual ideas. Instead, I found something more demanding. Shunya is less interested in offering fresh revelations than in taking familiar que...
Every generation inherits maps. Some inherit them from explorers, some from scientists, and others from sacred texts. The real debate is rarely about geography. It is about authority. Whose description of reality do we trust when different worldviews claim to explain the same horizon?That question sits at the heart of Phanindra Narayan Gundu’s Let There Be Light Upon the Universe — Beyond Maps: Ex...
Some books arrive like conversations. Others arrive like mirrors.You begin reading casually, thinking you already understand the territory — familiar gods, familiar philosophies, familiar spiritual vocabulary — and then somewhere between a story from the Puranas and a meditation on the self, the book quietly turns toward you and asks a question you were not prepared to answer.That was my journey t...
There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a reader when a book doesn’t merely present an argument, but quietly questions the foundation on which decades of accepted thinking have been built. I felt that silence while reading Mysteries of Vedas: Five Keys for Decoding by Kaushal Kishore. Not because the book is aggressive or sensational, but because it carries the confidence of someone...
