Category Archives: Hinduism
Why the Word Spirituality Never Existed in India’s Dharma – A Memory from Varanasi
It was twenty-five years ago, in Varanasi. I had run away from Hyderabad, weighed down by debts, confusion and questions. A friend, worried that I might lose myself, took me to meet a sadhu. He said, half-joking and half-serious, “Maybe this man can make you see sense and send you back.” The meeting happened in […]
What My Grandmother Revealed: The 10 Lies of the Brahma Kumaris — A True Story that Shook My Faith in What I Thought Was Spirituality
I never imagined that one afternoon in 2014 would unravel a mystery that had begun silently fourteen years earlier. Let me take you back. It was the year 2000. I was still young, brimming with curiosity, with just enough exposure to philosophy to ask annoying questions at family functions. But that year, my family wasn’t […]
THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
They gunned him down in broad daylight—his life extinguished in seconds before his bride’s horrified eyes. His identity as a Dalit, Brahmin, Rajput, Jat, Gujjar or Kayastha? IRRELEVANT. Whether he spoke Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, or Assamese? MEANINGLESS. If he voted for BJP’s Modi, Congress’s Rahul, AAP’s Kejriwal, or TMC’s Mamata? INSIGNIFICANT. In […]