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Radhika Bordia

So many Ramayanas: A sehrabandhi melody now unsung and other scenes from Kumaon’s Ramlilas

A conversation with Himanshu Joshi, who has spent more than a decade working on a film about performances of the epic in the region.

Radhika Bordia
· Oct 25, 2020 · 02:22 pm
How the Sangh has waged war to erase India’s many Ramayanas in its quest for power

Multiple strands are inconvenient for fundamentalist forces. Their triumph lies in framing a single unchallenged narrative.

Radhika Bordia
· Aug 11, 2020 · 06:30 am
How an inadvertent error in the ‘Paatal Lok’ credits led me to a Dalit Bhakti poet in Gujarat

The song was written not by Guru Nanak as listed but by Nanak Das, a 19th-century poet from Saurashtra.

Radhika Bordia
· Jun 21, 2020 · 11:30 am

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