In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.