If you are a writer who believes it is not your job to market your work, this is for you. If you are an artist who thinks marketing is a dirty word and that capitalist forces are out to get you, this is for you. If you …
I always create content with a plan. There is some thought given to target audiences, some idea of the duration of the piece. I even obsess over font sizes and paragraph lengths. I script things out and take great pains …
Two guards atop a fortress in lanka discuss the events of the day and trade rumours. A story set in Ramayana-era Lanka, but also, oddly enough, in the here and now.
Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Sound …
This is a story about the importance of making mistakes and how trying to avoid making mistakes is a sure way to drive joy out of your life.
Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
I have a problem with depictions of Hanuman where he is little more than an angry, brooding, musclebound hero. He has always meant something more to me — someone brave enough to doubt himself. Valmiki Ramayan makes …
When you think about it, omnipotence is a somewhat silly idea. We assign it to our gods unthinkingly, never stopping to wonder what we are burdening them with. So I wrote a story to put myself in a god’s shoes.
Some say the Buddha said “ I am but a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon.” Others say the Buddha didn’t say so, thus missing the point completely. And the point is missed all around us all …
What can Duck Tales tell us about the human condition? What are we really doing when we tell stories about talking animals? What’s up with Star Trek aliens? We are a storytelling animal and it is important that we do …
In addition to telling us that gods created us and how the gods created us, creation myths also tell us WHAT the gods created us FOR. Creation myths they tell us what we are allowed to do and what we are not allowed to …
What if I told you Cows do not give us milk? What if I told you Trees do not give us oxygen. What if I told you that we have lied to ourselves from …
In which I go on an elaborate rant about the Indian education system and how the middle-class relates with it.