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Dr. Nandini Murali
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Dr. Nandini Murali is a communications professional, author and researcher in Indic Studies. She is a Contributing Editor with the HinduPost. She loves to wander in the forests with her camera.
Sunrise, Sunset: Pappammal, 105-year-old organic farmer on her svadharma of staying true to her calling
Pappammal’s voice is loud and clear like the peal of a temple bell. When I first hear her strong voice, it is difficult to...
Pandemic Porn: Countering the Western media gaze
By hawking horrific images of death and dying, the Western media’s coverage of the COVID-19 crisis in Bharat, particular the second wave, exposes several...
Purva Paksha: Reversing the gaze
The antidote to Western universalism that privileges Western gaze and reduces all differences to sameness, lies in the dharmic practice of purva paksha, a...
Sati: Reversing and reframing the colonial gaze
The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
--George Orwell (1903-1950)
Knowledge and power...
How I become a Hindu/Sanatani – Part 2
In the second part of her interview, the eloquent and elegant Mary Suresh Iyer, a Christian by birth, shares her challenging journey towards embracing...
How I became a Hindu/Sanatani – Part 1
Mary Suresh Iyer, a Christian by birth, shares her personal journey of why she embraced Hindu Dharma and is today a sanatani. In a...
Rtu Vidya: Decoding the ancient science behind menstrual practices
“What is pure was, we do not touch. And what we do not touch, we call it taboo. She a menstruating woman was so...
Lessons from the Oxford and SOAS sagas
The recent racist cyber bullying and cyber lynching of Rashmi Samant at Oxford University and the furore in SOAS university, London, over the inadvertent...
Rasa and Ramya in Kabir: The place of delight in Nirgun Bhakti
The second part of the Yoga samvad series presented by Ritambhara, in which film maker and singer Shabnam Virmani explores the evocations of amrit...
Rasa and Ramya in Kabir: The place of delight in Nirgun Bhakti
This is the first part of the Yoga samvad series presented by Ritambhara, in which film maker and singer Shabnam Virmani who explores the...