Author: Michael
23.10.2020
Artwork of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses, Part 3 of 12
This next line drawing created for A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses is Kauśikī, a girl-form of the Great…
17.10.2020
Interview with Raj Balkaran: A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses
Click the image above to listen to a recent interview on A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses that I…
16.10.2020
Artwork of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses, Part 2 of 12
This next line drawing created for A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses portrays the sister goddesses Cāmuṇḍi and Uttanahaḷḷi….
10.10.2020
Artwork of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses, Part 1 of 12
This is the first of twelve posts where each week I will highlight one of the line drawings…
23.08.2020
Garuda Linux
I recently learned of a Linux distribution called Garuda Linux, and I thought my readers may like to…
08.01.2020
New and Future Animal Testing Research on Herbal Antivenoms
My research in Early Tantric Medicine focused on early medieval religious systems designed to counter snakebite envenomation. The…
19.02.2018
Interview with Vikram Zutshi
In this interview with Vikram Zutshi, I summarize some of the key findings of Early Tantric Medicine.
07.08.2017
Sanskrit Transliteration Keyboard on Unix
I have created an X keyboard layout that serves as a Unix/Linux equivalent to Toshiya Unebe’s “EasyUnicode” keyboard…
08.01.2017
Early Tantric Medicine is Published
I am pleased to announce the publication of my book Early Tantric Medicine by Oxford University Press. It…
18.07.2014
Snake-related News Pieces
A fascinating piece from 1904 on snakes’ reputed power to hypnotize their prey: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19040829.2.110Courtesy Aaron Ullrey Nag Pancami…