Posts from the religion category.
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...
Some books you read with curiosity. Others you read with admiration. And then there are those rare ones you read slowly, almost carefully — because every few pages you find yourself pausing, breathing a little deeper, and quietly acknowledging the fragile miracle of simply being alive.That was my experience with Light Beyond the Shadows: A True Story by Sangita Raje.The book opens not with manufac...
I set out to study the enemy. And I found it deep within.Just kidding - a co-ordinated campaign to market a fundamentally different ideology and set of beliefs to people who neither asked for it nor wanted it. May offer some explanation of how we landed up in this quagmire. Of course the people take some blame for this - but just like Facebook meddling in places where they have no business meddlin...
What happens when evil no longer needs to announce itself, and belief stops being about surrender and starts becoming a transaction?That question sits at the heart of Aghori of Manikarnika 2: The Trident of Shiva, and it lingers long after the story moves on. I didn’t close this book feeling entertained; I closed it feeling quietly confronted, as if something ancient had observed me without judgme...
