How many Ramayanas?
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Wednesday,September 20,2017Ramayana are many. We may consider “Valmiki Ramayana” as the standard Ram Katha text and beside it we can also adore Tulsidasa’s “Ramcharitmanasa”, but there are many more versions of Ramayana
A Ravana we know not
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Saturday,October 8,2016Ravana’s erudition and wickedness, both are well documented. But not much is known about his clan, about texts relating him, about his family, his devotion, his sprawling empire and his legendary Pushpak vimana. This article will tell you all about these and more
How Ganesha came to be known as “The Lord of Peacocks”
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Tuesday,September 6,2016According to Ganesha-Purana, Ganesha had ridden onto a peacock to kill a Danava called Sindhu
Did Rama really disown Sita?
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Friday,August 26,2016Valmiki Ramayana, which was written way before the Buddha era, remains unpolluted by all such distortions
Three Kamadeva stories that feature Lord Shiva, Krishna and Brahma
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Thursday,August 25,2016Hundreds of myths and stories float about Kamadeva. The great trinity of Hindu Mythology (Shiva, Vishnu, Mahesha) also had its own share of Kamadeva stories. Here goes :
6 Krishna myths, that will leave you wondering
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Wednesday,August 24,2016Do we think we know Krishna? Well, not as much as we think
There would have been no Mahabharata if Nishadraja was not ambitious
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Monday,August 22,2016if we roll back everything to find out the root cause of the epic battle, all we find is one ambitious man called Nishadraja,
Death while making love : another root cause of Mahabharta
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Monday,August 22,2016Death in lovemaking, this was one of the few very root causes of Mahabharata. How? The story is very intriguing.
A game went wrong and resulted in epic war
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Monday,August 22,2016In Mahabharata, The epic war of Kurukshetra could have been avoided, had it not been for that fateful game of dice.
Kamadeva : Things you never knew about the “God of Love”
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu” | Monday,August 22,2016The definition of “Kama” is always being debated in Hindu mythology. You pronounce the word and eyebrows will be raised.
