A Story Older Than India
(India Ink illustration, Anu Jayanth) In one popular legend, which I have heard at least a billion times, mankind enjoyed the same powers and privileges as immortal beings. Before long, their incurable greed and treachery prompted all the smaller gods to complain to Brahman, the godhead. Brahman decided to hide immortality from the undeserving. To each one of the suggested […]