LAXMAN REKHA IS NOT FROM THE GENIUS OF VALMIKI; IT IS A PRODUCT OF A PRIMIIVE MIND

One reason for the scream for banning  of a book on the history of Hinduism by Sanskrit Scholar Wendy Dungier was that it mentions some stanzas of Valmiki, the original author of Ramayana, that the โ€œHinduโ€ critics havenโ€™t heard of. To โ€œhear ofโ€ the contents of an epic, one has to read it. I will … Continue reading LAXMAN REKHA IS NOT FROM THE GENIUS OF VALMIKI; IT IS A PRODUCT OF A PRIMIIVE MIND

HOW THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A MACHINE MIND SHARES MY LOVE OF VALMIKI RAMAYANA

Every month, I receive a copy of Rasna, a Sanskrit magazine published in Palakkad. It is an incredible effort by a few enthusiasts to keep alive a language that is no longer in common use. The magazine reaches me through Prof. Gangadharan Nair, a retired professor of Sanskrit from the ลšrฤช ลšankarฤcฤrya University of Sanskrit, … Continue reading HOW THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF A MACHINE MIND SHARES MY LOVE OF VALMIKI RAMAYANA

HOW OLD WAS SITA WHEN SHE MARRIED LORD RAM?

AN INTERESTING INTERACTION WITH MICROSOFT COPILOT Microsoft Copilot is a large Language Model (LLM) of Artificial Intelligence. (AI). It stores a vast amount of data and the algorithm(s) that are needed to pick the right solutions. It is capable of fishing out data on virtually any topic from the Internet when it canโ€™t find the … Continue reading HOW OLD WAS SITA WHEN SHE MARRIED LORD RAM?

WHY A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN CHUCKED ME OUT

WHY YOUNG Spiritualists chucked me out My young friend, Dr. Shankar, wrote to me: "I want you to join a WhatsApp group called Young Thinkers. They are very interesting. You'd like their short but brainy blogs on the WhatsApp." " Beautiful, and why not," I wrote back, "I could even hone my own blogging techniques … Continue reading WHY A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN CHUCKED ME OUT