The word 'bitch' has a very sharp biting negative connotation in common parlance. It refers to a woman of loose morals, a treacherous woman, a manipulative woman. However, increasingly the word has ...

The Vedas are one of the earliest compositions of humankind. While they contain a lot of hymns, they also include a few stories. Rigveda, the oldest Veda, has a story about Sarama, the dog of heaven.

I was quite pleased to find, in the catalogue of books published this year by Penguin one that is entitled Sarama and Her Children, sub-titled The Dog in Indian Myth. As Penguin are paying us in books ...

In The Wonder That Was India, A.L. Basham wrote, "A divine bitch, Sarama, plays an important part in a legend which cannot be fully constructed, but the dog did not mean as much to the people of ...