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The Delightful Story of the Cussword, “Moo Devi”
Notes On Culture
The Delightful Story of the Cussword, “Moo Devi”
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
The Puranic roots and cultural metamorphosis of the expletive, "Moo Devi" prevalent in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Illustration of M.K. Stalin and Joseph Vijay in a Debate
Commentary
Stalin is Desperate. Joseph Vijay is an Incipient Chiranjeevi
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
A desperate Stalin faces a leadership vacuum and an unproven film star Vijay emerges as a challenger in Tamil Nadu’s most unpredictable election yet
Illustration of the Ramayana
Notes On Culture
Busting the Spurious Narrative of 300 Ramayanas
By
Arjun Bharadwaj
5 min read
A.K. Ramanujan's infamous essay "300 Ramayanas," was a deliberate fabrication to rob Maharshi Valmiki's authorship of the Sanskrit original
Illustration of Indian History Scholars at Work
Notes On Culture
The Education of the Exemplars of Indian History
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
Read the inspiring stories of how the exemplars of Indian History educated themselves
Why Don’t we still have any Creative Work on the 1962 Nehruvian Debacle?
Commentary
Why Don’t we still have any Creative Work on the 1962 Nehruvian Debacle?
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
6 min read
It is astonishing that even after 60 years, there is not a single creative work narrating the dark truths of the 1962 humiliation that India was made to suffer at Chinese hands by Jawaharlal Nehru.
Puranas and Woke: From Sanctifying the Mundane to Perverting Sanctity
Notes On Culture
Puranas and Woke: From Sanctifying the Mundane to Perverting Sanctity
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
The second episode expounds on the infinite artistic and spiritual possibilities embedded in the Puranas and how an evil ideology perverted even the notion of beauty and sanctity.
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