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Astrology
The Nakshatra System: How 27 Stars Taught India to Tell Time
Long before clocks, the moon's nightly lodgings ordered weddings, harvests, and coronations.
Long-form essays tracing the forgotten origins of the myths we tell, the rituals we keep, and the kingdoms we lost.
Before the coconut, there was something else on the altar. Tracing how one fruit came to stand in for the oldest sacrifice of all — and what the three eyes of the coconut were always meant to represent.
Long before clocks, the moon's nightly lodgings ordered weddings, harvests, and coronations.
In 1565 it rivalled Rome in size. By winter, it was a ruin. What really happened after Talikota?
A tug-of-war between gods and demons — or a memory of monsoon, medicine, and the first treaties?
They walked from Punjab to Bengal leaving shrines like breadcrumbs. Following the trail today.
The most decorated square foot of any Indian home is the one you step over. Here's why.
Everyone knows the war that made Ashoka Buddhist. Almost no one knows the kingdom he destroyed.
"A ritual is a story the body remembers after the mind has forgotten it."— from the essay "Why We Do What We Do"
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