Bharadwaj, Tapati

Series Editor: I grew up in an uber-brahmanical family where ritualistic worship was a part of my everyday life; the Vedic texts and the Upanishads were also something I grew up. I always thought that religion was something "out" there; I never actually thought that we were meant to believe in these texts on "revealed knowledge" in an absolute manner. But religion pervades every and all aspects of our lives - institutional, private or public, and be they secular, or not. After reading the Hindu religious texts for myself, I realised how gendered these texts were, and to our sensibilities, the