Aditya Chatterjee is a columnist and author of “The Evolution of Our Gods.”
The Museum Ulm at the Baden-Wurttemberg state in Germany displays a fantastic exhibit of a man-lion. The icon’s German name is Löwenmensch, meaning ‘lion-person’ or ‘lion-human’. The exhibit, just about…
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When I returned from my 2016 visit to Prambanan (Indonesian: Candi Prambanan), a 9th century Hindu religio-philosophy-inspired temple compound in Yogyakarta in southern Java, Indonesia, hardly any of my friends…
The episode of Yaksha-prashna is one of the more interesting portions of the Indian epic Mahabharata, where a Yaksha, a demigod or celestial being, asks a series of questions (prashna…
Recently, a post on X caught my attention. The post featured a gilded silver axe, one of the rarest and most remarkable works in Bronze Age metal, from the Bactria-Margiana…
On May 15, 2026, the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared the disputed Bhojshala complex at Dhar to be a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Sarasvatī. At the center of…
So, you thought that Lord Ganesh was always venerated for being a Siddhi-data (One who grants success) and Vighna-harta (Remover of obstacles)? Apparently, he was not. Ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi,…
