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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.
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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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Journalist Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV
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Evolution doesn’t need millions of years. Tiger snakes on an island have evolved over just a century
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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How Pakistan’s massive power outage has reaffirmed fears of a Sri Lanka-style economic collapse
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Bharat Jodo Yatra is ending. What do voters think about it?
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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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Eco India, Ep 212: More than a third of all carbon emissions are caused by construction. How to fix?
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‘Be like a man’: Journalist Anuradha Sharma on how women journalists in India are expected to work
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Watch: Model Kristen McMenamy falls, takes off heels to walk barefoot on Paris Fashion Week runway
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Watch: 2023 Jimmy Kimmel chats with 2003 Jimmy Kimmel for talk show anniversary
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Watch: How colleges across the country screened the controversial BBC documentary