Abhinav Agarwal

A common refrain of Dhritarashtra was to bemoan the vicissitudes of fate, the meaningless of karma, and the supremacy of destiny. It was per...

Remember what Vidura said towards the end of the previous chapter, that someone who incites his enemy " cannot presume to be secure, on...

V idura likens the Kouravas to the forest and the Pandavas to the tigers that reside in the forest. His injunction to the king is to not cut...

So far we have covered three chapters of Vidura Niti - 254 of 541 shlokas - or a little less than half of Vidura Niti, which is entirely con...

Vidura ended the previous chapter by telling the king that Yudhishthira was fit to rule, that he had suffered much on account of his 'co...

The first chapter of Vidura Niti ended with Vidura advising Dhritarashtra to do the right thing and hand over the Pandava's "rightf...

Some of the characters in the Mahabharata lived long lives. Even Arjuna was about to become a grandfather when the great battle was fought...

I  ended the third piece on Vidura Niti with listing the six who live off six others. Let's move to the seven. Yes, I am talking about s...

N umber play - that's where I ended the second article on Vidura Niti. Vidura spoke to Dhritarashtra about using the one - intelligence...

H aving begun by talking about the traits of learned people, Vidura then talked ' stupid '. If the learned can be described and iden...

W hen does sleeplessness takes over? When a " weak one is attacked by a stronger enemy, if one’s faculties are weak, if one has lost ev...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 11  - Chapter 13 (Ch 89 in the book) Rishi Sumedha concluded his account of the ...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 11  - Chapter 12 (Ch 89 in the book) - Ch 13 In this chapter, the goddess descri...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 10  - Chapter 11 (Ch 88 in the book) - Ch 12 With both Shumbha and Nishumbha dea...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 9  - Chapter 10 (Ch 87 in the book) - Ch 11 With Nishumbha killed, Shumbha taunt...

Devi Mahatmya - Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 8 - Chapter 9 (Ch 86 in the book) - Ch 10 King Suratha exclaims that the Devi m...

  Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 7   <<  Chapter  8  (Ch 85 in the book)  >>  Ch 9 W ith both Chand...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 6   <<  Chapter 7 (Ch 84 in the book)  >>   Ch 8 C handa a...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 5   <<  Chapter 6 (Ch 83 in the book)  >>   Ch 7 S ugreeva...

Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 4   <<  Chapter 5 (Ch 82 in the book)  >>   Ch 6 R ishi Su...