Indian Temples & Iconography

You sit there silently watching me make mistakes You smile down at me when my pathetic self madly dances about You emerge as a feeling wi...

Salvation, super philosophies and renunciation are lovely concepts, but what do we mortals do when we are tied down mercilessly by problems...

Hinduism believes in a world of devatas who live in various strata of the visible atmosphere, the lower Kshudra devatas who reside clos...

Twilight set in, leaving behind its orange residue across the horizon and the chirping was slowly fading away. The night sounds had starte...

Far away in remote northern Bengal, lost in the rural landscape is a small shrine to the Mother. While the representation is that of Kali Ma...

Our lifestyles are often defined by the caste we come from and the sub caste further describes the nuances of how we differ from each other ...

I have never seen a more brimming tantrik locality up so close and Tarapith is in every word a land of intrigue, secrecy and divinity. With ...

When we think of the pujas, the first thoughts are about the exotic pandals, the larger than life idols, the noise and the fine clothes peop...

  She walks the earth The silent Goddess, Mother of the cremation ground Mother to the Lord himself The blue hued one In the moonless n...

  He lay there on his deathbed, his eyes graying within their dark circles as he furiously fluctuated between this world and the other. He b...

Buried deep within the mountains, cut away from all the noise and secluded in this quaint valley laced by the river Mandakini is the sacred...

I sit here swinging between two worlds. I met her, a practicing tantric and what a wonderful woman she turned out to be. She unraveled her l...

From the darkness there rises A power of superior nature That thinks not before destroying evil That leaves only blood and ashes to spare Sh...

Karaikkal Ammaiyar, 6th Century. The highlight of Ammaiyar's story is that she asked Lord Shiva for a boon, one that would reduce her yo...

Strange temples that beat the canons of popular architecture echo the presence of an esoteric cult of the Mother Goddess in the form of ...