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Bibek Debroy

A new book retells a tale from the Ramayana about the origin of the Rameshwaram temple in Tamil Nadu

An excerpt from ‘Jyotirlingam: Shiva and the Twelve Columns of Light’, by Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy.

Amit Kapoor
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Bibek Debroy
· Aug 30, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Why Gandhi disliked the fountain pen: He thought it would metamorphose villages into cities

An excerpt from ‘Inked in India: Fountain Pens and a Story of Make and Unmake’, by Bibek Debroy and Sovan Roy.

Bibek Debroy
· Sep 13, 2022 · 08:30 am
Was Bhupathi from the novel that inspired ‘Charulata’ based on a prolific Sanskrit translator?

Excerpts from a biography of Manmatha Nath Dutt, who translated numerous Sanskrit texts into English between 1891 and 1912.

Bibek Debroy
· Nov 04, 2020 · 12:30 pm