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If you ever hear an echo remember, you are hearing the voice of Echo. a Dread or a mountain nymph according to Greek mythology, who - the story goes - loved the sound of her own voice that she would engage Hera, queen of the gods, in long interesting conversations. While Hera was distracted so [...]
Published in First City Delhi July 2008
Right in the middle of the Mediterranean sea stands the island of Crete, once the cradle of a great civilization that predated the one in Greece. This was the Minoan civilization, named after its mythical king, Minos, whose stories are scattered across Greek mythology.
Minos was the son of Zeus, [...]
Published in Sunday Midday on 17 August 2008
The story of Samson comes to us from the Book of Judges in the Old Testament of the Bible and from the Tanakh (the Bible of the Jewish people). It took place many centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ, but much after Moses led his people out [...]
Published in Sunday Midday on 3 August 2008
Everybody knows the story of the prince who was sheltered by his father from all the problems of life. He had a prosperous kingdom, a beautiful wife and a lovely child. But one day, as he wandered through the streets of his mountain kingdom he saw people who [...]
Published as 'The Right Spirit' in Corporate Dossier, Economic Times, 20 June 2008
Of the five tenets of Islam, there is one that forces the believer to take cognizance of others around him. The first tenet is about the faith one must have – faith in one God and his final prophet, Muhammad. The second is [...]
Published in Corporate Dossier, Economic Times, 18 April 2008
The Olympic motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius,’ is Latin for ‘Swifter, Higher, Stronger’. The roots of this ideal of continuous relentless improvement lies in the ancient Greek world, where the Olympic Games were a sacred ritual. Through participation, and especially through winning, the athlete reached the ‘zone’ that [...]
Published in First City, New Delhi, April 2008
The people of the Polynesian islands believe that once the sky-father Rangi and the earth-mother Papa were locked so tightly in loving embrace that the children they produced were smothered between them. So the children decided to separate the parents – the trees pushed the sky-father up away [...]
Published in First City, New Delhi, March 2008
Five thousand years ago, the kingdoms of Sumeria and Akkad flourished in the land once called Mesopotamia, the land between the two rivers, and now called Iraq. Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. The Akkadians called her Ishtar.
According to one story, Inanna [...]
Published in First City, New Delhi, Feb 2008
Muhammad was a simple trader who hailed from the city of Mecca in Arabia in the 7th century AD. He was renowned for his honesty, fairness and piety. When he was around forty, his life changed completely. During one of his many retreats to desert caves, where he [...]
Originally published in Corporate Dossier, Economic Times, 28 March 2008
Jain mythology refers to Shalakapurushas or worthy beings who regularly appear on earth to inspire and direct man to live a noble and fruitful life. There are 3 types of Shalakapurushas. The first type is the Vasudeva – a warrior who, advised by a wiser brother [...]
