Hindus worship both animate and inanimate objects. They find and see god in everything. They worship bells, shoes of great people, trees, birds, animals, snakes, stones, weapons, pictures and what not. Unless one knows the true meaning behind every ritual, it may look ridiculous to others. Tamil temples around the world carry Gods and Goddesses on different Vahanas that is metal or stone animals and birds, even trees (Karpaka Vrksha). This is in practice even today. Once it was practised around the world. Many South Indian temples are associated with birds, animals and insects which show God liberates even lower creatures. All the Vahanas (Mounts of Gods) are explained in this book through articles written over years; now and then newspapers report animals visiting the temples and worshipping the god. Such newspaper stories are collected by me and explained here.

Animal stories are very interesting and inspiring; they have been used by the Hindus for thousands of years to teach some morals. Mahabharata, Ramayana and later Hitopadesa and Pancha tantra have lot of fables. Vishnu Sarman of Panchatantra used those stories to teach political science to the dullest boys of a king and succeeded. Thus the stories spread to different parts of the world.

Sangam Tamil books are at least 2000-year-old; chronologically Tamil stands next to Sanskrit in India; though 6000 year old Vedas are still available and recited in all the temples and Vedic Schools, Tamils have lost many of their ancient works. But fortunately, we see the continuity of Vedic thoughts in Tamil Sangam books; they are 18 in number. There is another grammatical treatise Tolkappiam which is considered older than the 18 books. We see full-fledged Hinduism in it. The book mentioned Vedic Gods as the Gods of the Tamils. I have been writing about it from 2011. This book has some of the articles on this topic.

This is a Book of Quotations with a difference. I have selected over one thousand quotations mainly from Hindu scriptures. I have included books from Sanskrit and Tamil languages. Most of the quotation books have more foreign quotations than Hindu quotes. It is very rare to see Kalidasa or Tamil Tiruvalluvar in such books. I have given quotations from Dr. Radhakrishnan, Vedas, Upanishads and Tamil ethical works.

This is the second part of my views (a sort of commentary) on the controversial Manu Smriti. No one has the authority to criticize or appreciate it unless one reads it in full. But politicians show them as half baked fellows when they make comments without reading it in full. This second part has more interesting tit bits from the smriti.

This is my second English book on Women. In the first book, I have covered Hindu women and their marriage ceremony. This book covers comments and descriptions of women and some stories from the epics. The study of body features called Shamudrika Lakshana is Alco included here. Mother’s love and its effects on children are also illustrated.

Manu Smriti, the Hindu Law Book, is the oldest law book in the world. It is older than Hammurabi’s law book. I have given the details for my dating in this book. Manu Smritis is not followed anywhere in India now or earlier. But all ancient Tamil and Sanskrit authors have praised Manu Neeti (Manu’s Justice). Though we have more than 20 Hindu law books, Manu being the first, everyone praised it as a model book.