Pratap Sharma
Pratap Sharma founded RudraNāda to bring devotional music, India’s epics and careful reading into the same space. He writes about the Mahabharata, sacred sound, teachers and the places where popular retellings diverge from older texts. The approach is simple: devotion deserves warmth, and tradition deserves careful reading.
Research, stories and reflections.
Navratri 2026: Nine Nights, Nine Forms, and What We Are Really Worshipping
Sharad Navratri begins on 11 October 2026. The calendar matters, but the deeper question is what the nine nights are asking us to remember.
Karna: The Warrior We Keep Trying to Simplify
Karna is generous, humiliated, loyal, envious, courageous and cruel at different moments. His tragedy disappears when we force him to be only a victim or only a villain.
Om Namah Shivaya: Five Syllables, One Ancient Salutation
The mantra is simple enough to repeat in one breath and old enough to carry many centuries of interpretation. Its power becomes clearer when we separate the Vedic phrase from the meanings later traditions placed around it.
Why We Sing the Old Stories
Because a story remembered only as information grows distant. A story sung can enter the breath.
Guru Bodha: What Does a Guru Actually Give?
Not borrowed certainty. The old texts ask for humility, inquiry, service and a teacher rooted in what they teach.