Indian Mythology- Not a Fiction A Reading of Ashwin Sanghi’s Keepers of the Kalachakra

Abstract

From basic education to medicine, astronomy and even the latest quantum physics, everything is mentioned in the scriptures. One fails to extract the exact meaning of the written scriptures rather would just brush it off. Heisenberg, German physicist had spent some time in India, where he was the guest of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, they had a long conversation about Indian philosophy, Science and religion. During one of these conversations Tagore quotes few spiritual elements from Rig Veda and Heisenberg begins to understand that the concept of theory of relativity, interconnectedness and impermanence, which were difficult for him and his fellow mates to understand, were the basics of Indian spirituality. The concept of New Historicism is to understand the idea of the text when it was written, it attempts to reinterpret the history or the story given and defamiliarize it. New Historicism gives a fresh approach to the already said and believed things, with the parallel reading of the text and the co-text one can get an idea of the things that happened in a particular period and the genuineness of the history.The stories of our ancestors are not always mere fiction but they had scientific reasons too. Many of us still believe that everything happens for a reason but how that everything happens is still a question and when further researched it's godly or divine for some and for others it's scientific. This paper brings out how Ashwin Sanghi pulls fiction, science, mythology and history together.