I come from a Hindu Brahmin family and have had a moderately religious upbringing. As a kid I remember praying to god daily after having a bath, and here pops up the very first question I used to ask as kid….why should I pray only after having a bath? Why can’t I pray before even brushing my teeth? or immediately after I come back from play when I’m sweating and muddy? I remember doing ‘sandhya vandana‘ after my ‘upanayanam‘ once or twice. To this day I do not know what ‘gayatri mantra‘ means and why women are not supposed to chant it. And if women are not supposed to chant it how is it that T-Series makes a killing out of it by making Anuradha Paudwal sing it? Read the full story