The History of Ship-Building
Spanning over 7,000 years—from the Bronze Age dockyards of Lothal (~2400 BCE) to the advanced stitched ships of Cholas and…
Tour of the knight – Chess problem
Did you know this was solved by a 9th century sanskrit poet by the name Rudratha and this is explained…
Why do our parents and grandparents advise us to go to temple everyday morning?
As far as Hindus are concerned, temple is NOT JUST a place of worship. It has more purposes. Before I…
Why do we knock our heads, cross our hands to catch the ear tips and do the squats (Thoppukarnam) in front of Ganapathi in particular?
Purpose of visiting Ganapathi is to help improve our brain power. In America and Japan, they call our thoppukaranam as…
Why did we put this elephant god Ganapathi on top a mouse?
Mouse is a very interesting rodent that can hide anywhere, come out from anywhere, at the most unpredictable time, multiplies…
Why does Ganapathi has the head of an elephant?
The Ganapathi sankalpa in our mythology is that he is the “vigneswara” – the one who helps us overcomes all…
Thought process
Plan to start by talking about Sanskrit. Move to talk about Sutras, Then Shiva Sutras. From the Shivasutras, came the…