Dr. Shubha Vilas: Portraying Bharat as a flirt is pure scriptural distortion
Dr. Shubha Vilas · S2EP6: Modern Day Spirituality for High-Output Leaders ft. Dr. Shubha Vilas · Jan 7, 2026 · at 22:02
Author and spiritual mentor Dr. Shubha Vilas criticizes modern Indian authors who alter traditional characterizations of epic figures from the Ramayana.
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“So if I call Somebody like Bharat, who is called a dharmatma throughout the, you know, scriptures as a flirt. That's not at all modernization. That is absolutely distortion. And there are, you know, very famous authors who are doing that.”
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