The Perspective Enigma

  We all have grown up grown up listening to our teachers, professors and from over all academia and even reading about it that how Dharmic stories are fictional or if refined further with a seeker attitude that these Puranic stories are personification of certain elements or attributes. Puranas and Vedas for obvious reasons appear out to be completely fictional to the rational human mind and it is obvious. People find it comparatively easy to digest other 2 Itihaas documents/poetry like Ramayana and Mahabharata while Puranas appear to be more abstract to the human mind. The major question arises here, is it personification of certain concepts to teach lessons to the humans or is it all real? Art by Develv (Deviant Art): Portfolio. Majority of the people will go out with the first option because of the in drilled “scientific temperament” by the institutions which are the reservoir of coloniality in Bharat and rest of the world. It compels you to weigh the stories with the lens o...

Hindustan or Bharat. Which is the real name and which should be adopted? The republic of India has two principal short in both official and popular English usage, each of which is historically significant, India and Bharat. These two names are equally official short names recognized by the Constitution of India. A third name Hindustan is used as an alternative name for the region comprising of most of the common nations of the subcontinent when Indians speak among themselves. The name India was derived from the name Indus, which originates from the old Persian word Hindu, which was historical local appellation for the Indus river. Now who gave the word called Indus and India? The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi which translates “the people of Indus”, Indus being the river here. Nowhere there was a mention of the word “HINDU” in terms of religion.   There is no mention of Hinduism in any Veda or an epic like Mahabharata and Ramayana. Hinduism is ...