HeyJaredKalpana Jain
I'm a journalist and author who switched from science to religion reporting.
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Why Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey brought me to the epic Mahabharata— and what it reminded me about suffering and love (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowWhen the world feels chaotic, I often turn to the Mahabharata -- an epic that goes back thousands of years -- to find my own moral center. I was surprised that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey brought me to reflect on this ancient text, and to the world we live in today.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PGUl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
The Loss of the traditional Newsroom (opens the original)
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I recall my childhood days of waking up to my father reading an English-language newspaper, the teapot by his side and my mother sitting with her own cup on a chair next to him. From time to time, he would look up and read to her the news he found most interesting.Subscribe nowOnce my mother was done with the housework, she would sit down with her own newspaper -- Hindi this time -- and read it line by line. The evening brought another round, when my father would reach for the evening newspaper.
Beyond conflict: Kashmir's rich interreligious traditions (opens the original)
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Not many people – especially here in the U.S. – know about Kashmir’s rich Shaiva, or Hindu, past. More often than not, the region is discussed only through the lens of conflict.So I was intrigued when I first met Harvard Ph.D. student Peter Dziedzic, who is studying the Islamic traditions of Kashmir that developed in conversation with this religious and cultural heritage. I was honored to have Peter join us this summer on the Religion & Ethics desk through an internship supported by the American
What a journey to Borobudur -- an awe-inspiring Buddhist monument -- helped me see (opens the original)
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