Category: Ballads

  • Nagapanchami – the cult of snake workship

    snakes the symbols of rejuvenation, rebirth and fertility are worshiped all over india over the next three articles i would explore more about this festival.

  • emminent snakes of hindu mythology

    with the Nagapanchami round the corner its time to look at the snake motif in our folk-lore and sacred-lore and its place in our metaphysics.

  • Voice of the ocean

    . Someone once told me that if you need strength go to the mountain, if you need, calmness go to the see. Like us, the sea is ever-changing. And, like us, the earth’s vast oceans appear at a distance to be stable and homogenous. But beneath the mask of solidity that both we and the…

  • the geopiety of the vatavriksha.

    geopiety is the reverence of nature. trees are part of this too. this article looks at the famous botanical hermit the Banyan tree.