"Symbolically, Ganesha represents the basic unity of the macrocosm and microcosm, the immense being (the elephant) and…"

"Sanskrit is constructed like geometry and follows a rigorous logic. It is theoretically possible to explain the meani…"

"When the two boys [Ganesha and Skanda] were of marriageable age, Shiva and Parvati did not know which of the children…"

"Sanskrit was a complete success and became the language of all cultured people in India and in countries under Indian…"

"The creation of Sanskrit, the “refined” language, was a prodigious work on a grand scale. Grammarians and semanticist…"

"From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murd…"

"Indeed, the policy of the Muslim invaders in India ‘seems to have been a conscious systematic destruction of everythi…"

"The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions…"

"An enigmatic character, sly and acetic, ambitious and devout, one of those gurus who exert an incredible magnetism on…"

"We have no texts explaining the rites and ceremonial of the Dionysiac mysteries in the Greco-Etrusco-Roman world, alt…"