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Indrajit Bandyopadhyay

Mankundu, Hooghly, West Bengal,India

Associate Professor in English Kalyani Mahavidyalaya, City Centre Complex, PO: Kalyani, Dist- Nadia, West Bengal, PIN- 741235

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Blogs

Dharma is The Original Name of Hinduism

Irfan Habib and Purusha Sukta (10.90) of RgVeda: Some Questions on Logic

Sumit Sarkar, Text Manipulation, “Rammohan Roy and the Break with the Past”

Vak Saraswati The Mother of All Religion

Poetry

A Restless Soul

Let Me Think For Some Time More

Ode To A Friend

Spider Poet and the Social Termite

The Poison Fruit

Book Reviews

First Bengali Mahabharata of Kavi Sanjaya

Hiltebeitel, Appropriating Ambedkar, and Political Agendalogy

Hiltebeitel, “Fifth Veda,” and the Panini Factor

Mahabharata Itihasa and Hiltebeitel

Narasingha P. Sil, Vulturous Scholarship, and Shri Ramakrishna

Narasingha P. Sil, “Excreta-eating-Clever-Crow-Syndrome,” & Shri Ramakrishna

Prakash Karat, Falsification of History, and Raja Rammohan Roy

Sumit Sarkar, Chakri-Centric Kaliyuga -Scholarship & Shri Ramakrishna - I

The Nay Science

Culture

Unmasking Dr. Zakir Naik

Yudhishthira's Sword in the Gupta Deogarh Dashavatara Temple and Modern India

Hinduism

Adopted son Duryodhana and his elder brother Karna? Page-1

Arjuna Brhannalaa and Uttara significance, Karna's character and Virata Parvan encounter

Arjuna or Karna - Who was the Greatest?

Balarama is Abhimanyu’s Father-In-Law: A Study In Folk Mahabharata

Bhimaism - Terrorizing the Terrorist

Brahmana: Ideal of Hindus, Buddha, Mahavira, and Anti-Hindu Agenda

Dharma-Yuddha, Duryodhana's Raajadharma and deficit of the 'Feminine'

Draupadi - Satyabhama Samvada

Draupadi Abduction, Curious Narratives of Nrisimha Purana and Jain Mahabharata

Draupadi and Pandava Purusha Upanishidic Significance

Draupadi Disrobing Episode- An Allegory of Vak

Draupadi Pandava Consensual Polyandrous Marriage

Draupadi Svayamvara: The Upanishadic Significance

Draupadi, the Lost Sarasvati – 1

Draupadi, the Lost Sarasvati – 2

Duryodhana and Karna versus Friendship - Page 1

Duryodhana and Karna versus Friendship - Page 2

Duryodhana the Symbol of Imperialism - 1

Duryodhana the Symbol of Imperialism - 2

Ekalavya, Arjuna and Drona - The Eternal Entanglement- Part-1

Ekalavya, Arjuna and Drona - The Eternal Entanglement - Part 2

Ekavastraa Draupadi, Performance, Politics and Mahaanagnyaa Vak

Fall of Arjuna and Pandavas Upanishidic Signifiance

Fall of Draupadi and the Pandavas: Upanishadic Significance

How Vyasa conveys Truth through RigVedic Signifiers and structure-architecture

Indra-Vishnu on One Chariot!

Janaka Sulabha: Crossing the Antaraala

Karna – Masculine-Mask Vulnerable Gender Identity

Karna's Father Found

Krishna and Arjuna on One Chariot - Rotating Night and Day

Krishna Bhima and Arjuna kill Jarasandha: Vyasa says Why, Kautilya says How

Krishna, Last Days: Why Vyasa ‘kills’ him at the 16th Parvan?

Kunti's Dharma-lessons to Yudhishthira

Mahabharata and Evolutionary Psychology; Lessons in Male-Female Psyche

Mahabharata Krishna Gita in Rig Veda Mandala 8

Mahabharata – Text and Textuality

Mahabharata: Draupadi Birth Mystery Decoded

Mahabharata: Draupadi, Body Language, Eyes, and Vyasa’s Poetry

Mahabharata: Draupadi’s Single Garment, and Disrobing in Dice Game Sabha

Mahabharata: Kichaka's Death and the Dance of the Goddess

Mahabharata: Rational Reading in the light of Kautilya’s Arthasastra

Mahabharata: The Fisherman God

Mahabharata: The Holy Cow and Cow-Imagery in Narratives

Mahabharata: The Myth of the Death of Bhisma, Drona, Karna, Duryodhana

Marriage of Arjuna, Kakawin Indonesian Mahabharata – Part-1

Mother India: Tracing the Footsteps of Bharata-Mata

Pandava Birth-Mystery Reconsidered

Pandava Draupadi Marriage - Coded Message On Rajadharma and Ideal Governance

Ramayana: Sita’s Valour of Tongue

Ramayana: Why does Rama delay return to Sita?

Redefining Nastika: Draupadi, Vivekananda, Rabindranath; The Power of Why

The Absurdity of Astika versus Nastika Debates

The Birth of Mahabharata Part 1 Page 1

The Birth of Mahabharata Part 1 Page 2

The Eldest of the Trio: Vidura

The Inner Script and Sri Ramakrishna

The Mystery of The Pandava ‘God-Fathers’

The Mystery of The Pandava ‘God-Fathers’ - 2

The Mystery of The Pandava ‘God-Fathers’ - 3

The Other Duryodhana in Classical Mahabharata

The Other Side of the Two Krishnas

The Rebels: The Next Generation Pandavas

Variations in Folk Mahabharata of Garhwal Madmaheshwar

Variations in Indonesian Mahabharata

Variations in Indonesian Mahabharata -2

Vedic-Hinduism: The Mother of Rationalism Liberalism and Secularism - 1

Vidura - The Eldest Of The Trio

Vritra's Last Wish

Vyasa's Veda Rshi-Brahmin Family Conflict and Draupadi's Polyandry

Why Buddhist-Brahmin Poets Tampered with Ramayana and the Shambuka Episode

Why Draupadi is Sachi-Indrani

Why Krishna Red-Carded Duryodhana out of Dharma-Raajya?

Yudhishthira & Duryodhana's Rule

Yudhishthira and Krishna: Indra & Vishnu on One Chariot 2

Yudhishthira and Krishna: Indra & Vishnu on One Chariot 3

Yudhishthira and Krishna: Indra & Vishnu on One Chariot 1

Yudhishthira Never Staked Draupadi and Pandavas in Dice Game

Yudhishthira's Svargrarohana: Why he insists on taking the dog to Svarga

Yudhishthira's Svargrarohana: Why he insists on taking the dog to Svarga - 2

Humor

Brahma Federal System: Conversation of Four Heads

Photo Essays

Coastal People & Culture

Enlightened Pine Tree

Grandeur of Sun at Sundarbans

Hanumanji Rakeshwari temple, Ranshi

Landscapes Along the Coast

Life as it is at Jaydev Kenduli

Life of Fishermen Along the Coast

Madmaheshwar Valley

Mighty Chaukhamba

Natural Life on the Coastline

Olive Ridley Turtles: Existential Paradox

Opening the Window of the Mind

Panar Bugiyal's Scenic View

Pandava's Temple

Peeping Into Life ... and more

Pine-fruit Sways in Wind

Plunderer Forefathers at Maikhamba

Ramayana and Valmiki's Tapovan in Bengal

Seagulls and other Birds

Serene and Calm

Strange Rock Formations: Mountain or Man

Sunrise on Shivalinga

Sunset at Ranshi

The Bauls of Jaydev Kenduli

The Buda-Madmaheshwar Temple

The Mela Shops at Jaydev Kenduli

Random Thoughts

Mahabharata: Lessons on Myth-Making Process, the Sachin Tendulkar Experience

Stories

And Thus Spake Ghatothkacha - 1

Draupadi's Last Trek

Travelogues

Angkor Wat Cambodia

Bagini Changbang Rishikund Trek

Betla Forest Tour

Bhisma in Bishnupur Terracotta

Bhisma in Karnataka Stones

Bundelkhand Romance: Neelkantheshwar Trimurti

Bundelkhand Romance: Rock-Cut Narasimha Of Dudhai

Coastal Trek Chandipur-on-Sea to New-Digha

Coastal Trek: Paradip to Konark, Orissa

Deoriatal: Waning Beauty Waxing Splendour

Har-ki-Doon Trek

Hemkund Sahib Trek

Jaydev Kenduli Baul Mela

Kankaleshwari Kali of Burdwan Bengal

Kedarkantha Himalaya Trek

Madmaheshwar Trek

Mamallapuram - Mahabalipuram Tour

Munsiyari – A Peep into God's Andarmahal

Nagzira Forest: Encounter with the Big-Cats

Prambanan Candi Rara Jonggrang

Rudra Shiva of Devrani Temple

Salihundam and Kalingapattanam - Ancient Globalized Bharatavarsha

Sita Bengra Ambikapur Chhattisgarh Tour

Srimukhalingam - The Less Known Temple Gem of India

Tapovan Gaumukh Trek

Toli Bugiyal Trek

Valley of Flowers Trek