Recent news about a Russian court hearing a petition to Ban "Geeta"provoked me to write this post. In today’s ‘Fast food   -   Twitter’   world if one is asked to interpret Gita it would translate as:   For the sake of religion (Dharma) you are justified to kill your brothers. Is it not the same thing that the Islamist (Jihad) and Christians (Crusade) talk about? It is not what the holy books talk but ‘Who’ and ‘how’ the words of the holy books are interpreted, that determines the understanding of Religion. To understand Mahabharat, Gurcharan Das did not go to Ayodhya, Mathura, Varansi or Kasi or make the Char Dham yatra, but he went   to the institution of Liberal art thinking, University of Chicago.!!! Ancient Indian Culture followed the Verbal method of telling stories / Mythology. Written works are fairly recent, and there are various version of Ramayana where the core thoughts remain the same but the body around it changes. (Valmi...