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Four years of Ekadasi fasting

Vishy KurugantiDecember 08, 20233 mins

My mother fasts and prays. My sister meditates. I run. 11 years ago, I began a post with this preamble. With a slight trepidation I can now update the 3rd sentence to “I run and fast.” Although my…

Backstory on John D. Rockefeller’s First Public Donation

Vishy KurugantiJanuary 01, 20132 mins

[John D. Rockefeller (Pic courtesy storiesofusa.com) My most inspired Kindle purchase in 2012 (for a ‘princely’ sum of $1.99) was The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Last night I learnt that John…

Treat us as human beings, not goddesses please!

Vishy KurugantiDecember 20, 20121 mins

My wife shared this on her Facebook wall today… Its a myth – not history – that women in India are treated as goddesses…and even in the greatest epics/myths, one goddess-woman was publicly stripped by…

Errr… Could we stop the conversions please?

Vishy KurugantiApril 07, 20122 mins

This post has been in my Drafts folder for a whopping 20 months. I use ‘post’ loosely because when I picked it up today, it was just a collection of interesting story links and a provocative title…

Why I’m proud to be a Hindu

Vishy KurugantiAugust 08, 20102 mins

Someday (way in the future) I wanted to write this post. The thoughts were clear in the head but there were several more interesting posts queued ahead in my WordPress Drafts folder. During my last…

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