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Arshia Sattar
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Arshia Sattar: ‘We must bring ourselves back to beauty, compassion and solidarity...’
To mark India’s 75th Independence Day, PEN America asked authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt.
Arshia Sattar
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What it meant to write and publish books on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana during the pandemic
Writer Arshia Sattar worked on a children’s version of the Mahabharata and a book on ‘dharma’ in the Ramayana in this period.
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Do the characters in the Ramayana follow ‘dharma’? This book investigates their actions
An excerpt from ‘Maryada: Searching For Dharma In The Ramayana’, by Arshia Sattar.
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right
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The pandemic made this writer live briefly with her younger self (and the books they share)
Arshia Sattar’s essay, excerpted with permission from ‘And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again’, edited by Ilan Stavans.
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Why the Uttara Kanda changes the way the Ramayana should be read
The final book of the Ramayana shifts the focus from free will to predestination.
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Three translated books you must not miss
An acclaimed translator tells us about the books that have helped her gain in translation.
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Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes