NEW DELHI: As India’s COVID-19 caseload surpassed the one crore-mark, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the unplanned lockdown did not manage to “win the battle in 21 days as the prime minister claimed”, but “destroyed” millions of lives in the country. The health ministry‘s data updated at 8 am on Saturday showed … Read more
Author Seemanti Chakraborty shares her journey as a writer, the factors that fascinated her curiosity about Yudhishthira and how it paved the way for her debut book ‘Rise of Dharma’ , which comes first in the trilogy that she is currently working on. This festive season, readers who enjoy mythological fiction are in for a … Read more
-Devdutt Pattanaik In Hindu mythology Ravana is considered a successful king. He rules over the golden city of Lanka. However, Ram is considered a spiritually successful king. His reign over the kingdom of Ayodhya is admired as the model to achieve. In Lanka, there is profit, laabh. In Ayodhya, there is profit for all, shubh-laabh. … Read more
TheRamayana also launched a Hindi-only application last week. Ramayana: The coronavirus lockdown saw Doordarshan bringing back Ramanand Sagar’s TV adaptation of Ramayana, the tale of Lord Rama. The successful rerun of the show inspired the team at TheRamayana to create a virtual museum on the Indian epic. The brainchild of serial entrepreneur Bhuwan Arora, TheRamayana … Read more
The Bhagavad Gita informs us that the world is made of two intertwined entities: the material (prakriti) and the spiritual (purusha). The latter is technically not an entity as it cannot be measured. It is what makes us alive. Matter has three qualities (guna): the lucid (sattva), the passionate (rajas) and the sluggish (tamas). Everything … Read more