Travel Tips for Voyages to India
This entry is excerpted from an email I crafted to my auspicious first visitors from my motherland to my new home in Mumbai. Perhaps it’s some useful advice for anyone visiting. So as you get ready for your first trip to India, your first trip to Asia, and your first trip to the real 3rd […]
Abrahamic-Brahmanic Linkages
I have read up on numerous theorists who posit bizarre and often dubious links between the Abrahamic and Brahmanic traditions. Some of the overlapping themes that remain scholarly questionable include: various Semitic-sounding place-names in India that are attributed to Hebraic rather than Arabic roots, particular Hindu castes/communities (Yadavs, Kashmiris) for whom some sort of distant […]