The world is—despite what you may in dark moments think—a better place to be, ever since the Bhagavata Podcast was launched on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBhagavataPodcast . In each episode, Dr. Mans Broo (aka Bhrigupada Das) leads open-ended discussion with one or another scholar-devotee on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, one chapter at a time. As in the famous […]
During the last few weeks, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies folks have been packing up all there is to pack at 13–15 Magdalen Street, bringing it all—box by box and chair by chair and picture by mūrti and pot by dishdown to street-level, across the street and over to No. 1 St. Giles. There, […]
This last August I attended the once-every-three-years Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas (DICSEP—see https://dicsep.org for the list of presentations). This was the fourth time I’ve attended and presented in this venue, and this time my topic was the Bhāgavata Purāṇa’s story of King Bharata’s adventures through three lives, titled “The Rhetoric […]
First, an apology to all readers for my extended silence on this website. Perhaps my sin of omission calls for penance, but for now I’ll just share a bit of news and a thought or two more or less related to the news. The first news amounts to a number, namely, 30,000. This is the […]
Scholars will find any excuse to attend an academic conference if the venue will be in a scenic place far from home, especially if they do scholarship on the phenomenon of travel. In this case the “excuse” was to participate in a conference on the subject of pilgrimage and religious tourism—a topic that in recent […]
The months of limited or no travel pass rapidly. I’ve been remaining (almost) completely in one place for the last year and two months as the Covid pandemic continues to threaten our well-being. In the meantime, but already more than two months ago, I was fortunate to participate in the online Sacred Journeys global conference, […]
As I write this, since more than fifty days I’ve been “locked down” at Nilachal Vedic Village (NVV), a small farm community some two hours’ drive north from Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra very close to the Gujarat state border. One could think of a lot worse places to be confined during the present […]
January 1, 2020, India The years come, the years go. Farewell to 2019, Hello to 2020, with all good wishes. Let’s keep moving along the Yellow Brick Road. (Photo at Adalaj Stepwell, 15th c., just north of Ahmedabad).
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