Krishna
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Yugant / युगान्त : Book Review/Recommendation
Nachiketa recommends Irawati Karve’s Yugant, a critical, rational reading of the Mahabharata that weighs its characters’ motivations, from the Pandavas’ marriage to Draupadi to Krishna’s character, with literary respect but…
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Magic and advertising
Announces a series on another blog about Ioan Couliano’s argument that Renaissance magic was the art of conjuring desire through images, and that commercial advertising has revived it, illustrated with…
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A “carvaka” perspective historicity of myth and religion
Razib Khan argues from a sceptical standpoint that Ram and Krishna, if they existed, belong to prehistory like Abraham or Zoroaster, whereas the Buddha and Mahavira are liminal figures, and…
