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  • In Bengaluru, an ancient play finds new voice in the world’s oldest living dramatic tradition

    In Bengaluru, an ancient play finds new voice in the world’s oldest living dramatic tradition

    Malini Nair
    · Jun 28, 2025 · 11:30 am
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    Delhi University will not teach Manusmriti, says VC after text included in Sanskrit course

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    · Jun 12, 2025 · 04:01 pm
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    ‘With Earth as My Witness’: Poetry as meditation on the profane and sacred, the human and the divine

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    · May 11, 2025 · 06:30 pm
  • India’s complex history cannot be wished away through textbook revisions – it must be confronted

    India’s complex history cannot be wished away through textbook revisions – it must be confronted

    Hasnain Naqvi
    · May 03, 2025 · 06:30 am
  • ‘Teru’: Sahitya Akademi-winning Kannada novel questions uncritical acceptance of religious ritualism

    ‘Teru’: Sahitya Akademi-winning Kannada novel questions uncritical acceptance of religious ritualism

    Nikhil Sanjay-Rekha Adsule
    · Apr 27, 2025 · 03:30 pm
  • How Indian artists transformed Western ‘Cubism’

    How Indian artists transformed Western ‘Cubism’

    Shatadeep Maitra
    · Apr 01, 2025 · 11:30 am
  • Fiction: Dev and his friends’s dreams unfold against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising India

    Fiction: Dev and his friends’s dreams unfold against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising India

    Sandeep Khanna
    · Feb 27, 2025 · 05:30 pm
  • How will a ‘Hindu constitution’ help India’s precarious workers safeguard their futures?

    How will a ‘Hindu constitution’ help India’s precarious workers safeguard their futures?

    Nandita Haksar
    · Feb 14, 2025 · 09:00 am
  • ‘Kandukondain Kandukondain’ at 25: An enduring charmer about losing and finding love and happiness

    ‘Kandukondain Kandukondain’ at 25: An enduring charmer about losing and finding love and happiness

    Nandini Ramnath
    · Jan 11, 2025 · 08:45 am
  • A view of 19-century Bombay and its Parsis through the eyes of a Russian poet

    A view of 19-century Bombay and its Parsis through the eyes of a Russian poet

    Ajay Kamalakaran
    · Dec 28, 2024 · 11:30 am
  • Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti on how Kannada poetry is influenced by translation and rewriting

    Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti on how Kannada poetry is influenced by translation and rewriting

    Kirtinath Kurtkoti Kamalakar Bhat
    · Dec 17, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • Literature Live announces 2024 winners of best books, poet laureate, and lifetime achievement awards

    Literature Live announces 2024 winners of best books, poet laureate, and lifetime achievement awards

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 18, 2024 · 11:44 am
  • Why have Indian historians failed to combat ‘WhatsApp history’?

    Why have Indian historians failed to combat ‘WhatsApp history’?

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Nov 10, 2024 · 08:00 am
  • Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology

    Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology

    Ranjit Hoskote
    · Oct 18, 2024 · 09:30 am
  • A new book argues that all the major religions of the world have similar cores of spiritual teaching

    A new book argues that all the major religions of the world have similar cores of spiritual teaching

    Trilochan Sastry
    · Sep 24, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • Why Akbar was a staunch believer in sulh-e-kul or complete harmony among all faiths in his empire

    Why Akbar was a staunch believer in sulh-e-kul or complete harmony among all faiths in his empire

    Shazi Zaman
    · Sep 18, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

    Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

    Rajiv Thind
    · Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • Translated play: Rajat must deal with an honest, ailing playwright and a sanctimonious civil servant

    Translated play: Rajat must deal with an honest, ailing playwright and a sanctimonious civil servant

    Swadesh Deepak Jerry Pinto
    · Aug 20, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India

    Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India

    Farrukh Dhondy
    · Jul 31, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘Gurram Jashuva showed that stigmatised people are worthy of poetry’: Translator Chinnaiah Jangam

    ‘Gurram Jashuva showed that stigmatised people are worthy of poetry’: Translator Chinnaiah Jangam

    Saurabh Sharma
    · Jun 22, 2024 · 01:30 pm
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