Brahma’s Paradox
The Ramayana contains at least one instance where we witness a paradox in the making. An impossible situation arises that is averted, and which leaves one wondering, “what if”.
September 28, 2022 Abhinav Agarwal
The Maratha Military Genius: The Battle Of Palkhed
The battle of Palkhed is remembered for it being a “masterpiece of strategic mobility”
November 23, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Kurukshetra, A Travelogue
Kurukshetra satisfies most of the modern-day stereotypes of a small Indian town.
October 28, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
The Raja Dharma Series Part 2 – Violence And Punishment
Part 2 of the series on Rajadharma talks about Violence and Punishment, and finds that, for righteous reasons, between non-violence and violence, the path that leads to upholding of dharma was superior.
September 24, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
The Raja Dharma Series Part 1 – Kingly Responsibilities To Protect Dharma
The first part of our series on ‘Rajadharma’ – a treatise on basic philosophy of statecraft aimed at good governance, takes us through Yudhishthira’s desire to abandon all Karma to finally upholding the principles of Rajadharma after the Great War
September 3, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Lessons from Mahabharata – When Kunti met Karna
The second meeting Karna had was with Kunti. Kunti, the mother who had abandoned her first-born son, Karna, the son who could not bring himself to abandon the friend who gave him a kingdom
April 23, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Natural Enmity by Ashay Naik
Ashay Naik’s book, “Natural Enmity – Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Pancatantra [Book 1]”, is a fascinating and scholarly commentary on perhaps the most famous of all animal-tale anthologies.
April 18, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Mahabharata and Charity
Receiving something with eyes shut is not wisdom. Receiving is also an action, a karma, and the Gita says this best, when it tells us that “Action begun under delusion, without considering consequences, destruction, injury, and one’s own capabilities, is known as tamas-type.”
February 12, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Where There is Krishna, There is Victory
Where there was dharma, Krishna was there, and where there was Krishna, there was a Victory.
February 5, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Where there is Dharma, there is Victory
Yato dharmas tato jaya, means Where there is Dharma, there will be Victory. This article digs the occurrences of this shloka in the epic Mahabharata.
January 1, 2021 Abhinav Agarwal
Review of Who Killed Shastri by Vivek Agnihotri: The Making of a Movie, Conspiracy, and a Nation
Who Killed Shastri follows the first-person point of view, with the author interlacing the narrative with the background of the movie; how the idea was seeded, what the research led to, how skepticism faded, and the imagining of the ending, the climax.
November 15, 2020 Abhinav Agarwal
Devi Mahatmya Part IV: Shumbha, Narayani Stuti, Phala Shruti, Conclusion
Devi Mahatmya – Shumbha, Narayani Stuti, Phala Shruti, Conclusion
October 23, 2020 Abhinav Agarwal
Devi Mahatmya Part III: Dhumralochana, Chanda, Munda, Raktabija, Nishumbha
Devi Mahatmya Part III deals with the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters, referencing the translation of Markandeya Purana by Dr. Bibek Debroy
October 21, 2020 Abhinav Agarwal
Devi Mahatmya Part II: Mahishasura, Shakra etc.Stuti, Doota Samvada
In part II of our series Devi Mahatmya, we start Navaratri with the death of Mahishasura
October 17, 2020 Abhinav Agarwal
Lessons From The Mahabharata: Kanika Niti – The Dead Inspire No Fear
Kanika Niti is encapsulated in one chapter at the end of Sambhava Parva, which is an upa Parva of the Adi Parva.
October 9, 2020 Abhinav Agarwal
