On a crisp cold evening in Mussoorie recently, as we sat around a roaring bonfire, the conversation turned to the question of rebirth. In the Hindu faith, the Bhagwad Gita says that death is but a transient experience, where the physical body perishes, but the soul survives, and moves on. Like a person changing one set of clothes for another, …
For as long as stories have existed, they have been interpreted in different ways, understood through different perspectives, and held up as examples of different ideals. Mythology has undergone the same diversification, perhaps with a much greater intensity, “because we try to find influence and inspiration in a force that’s larger than us,” author Koral Dasgupta tells Firstpost. As a …
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