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Parvati Sharma

With CAA protests and questions over sponsors, the Jaipur Literature Festival has to make choices

Nuanced debates about corporate money fuelling culture and debate were possible, even credible, once upon a time. Not anymore.

Parvati Sharma
· Feb 01, 2020 · 07:30 am
The Mughals were an integral part of India – so why are they being labelled foreigners?

It’s not their place of origin but their Muslim identity that makes them ‘foreign’, writes the author of a new biography of Jahangir.

Parvati Sharma
· Nov 25, 2018 · 07:00 am
How Jahangir fought his alcohol addiction and dealt with a threat posed by Akbar’s historian

An excerpt from Parvati Sharma’s biography of the Mughal ruler who was Salim before he became Jahangir.

Parvati Sharma
· Nov 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

The poem that Faiz could have written for Delhi’s marching students

‘Listen, stranger, since you ask / these young men and women / are that rawest pearl of light…’

Tahseen Alam
&
Parvati Sharma
· Mar 12, 2017 · 08:30 am