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  • Stop moaning. Indian fantasy writing doesn’t depend on the epics (though it’s OK if it does)

    Stop moaning. Indian fantasy writing doesn’t depend on the epics (though it’s OK if it does)

    Mimi Mondal
    · Jul 13, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • Centre's plan to create pilgrimage circuits will actually undermine the sanctity of holy sites

    Centre's plan to create pilgrimage circuits will actually undermine the sanctity of holy sites

    Mrinal Pande
    · Jun 27, 2016 · 05:30 pm
  • Indian fantasy writers are creating worlds beyond the epics, but readers must know where to look

    Indian fantasy writers are creating worlds beyond the epics, but readers must know where to look

    Achala Upendran
    · Jun 25, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • Will Indian fantasy writers ever look beyond the religious epics?

    Will Indian fantasy writers ever look beyond the religious epics?

    Vani
    · Jun 18, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • 'Why can't we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?': Historian Romila Thapar

    'Why can't we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?': Historian Romila Thapar

    Romila Thapar
    · May 24, 2016 · 06:30 am
  • Do you understand me? Translation in India after the classics

    Do you understand me? Translation in India after the classics

    K Satchidanandan
    · May 15, 2016 · 05:30 pm
  • Remaking the nation: Why India should be renamed Undia

    Remaking the nation: Why India should be renamed Undia

    Sumana Roy
    · May 14, 2016 · 08:00 am
  • Delhi weekend cultural calendar: Exhibition of political banners, documentary screenings, and more

    Delhi weekend cultural calendar: Exhibition of political banners, documentary screenings, and more

    The Daily Pao
    · May 13, 2016 · 12:15 pm
  • Are you Indian or Pakistani? It doesn't matter

    Are you Indian or Pakistani? It doesn't matter

    Shaira Mohan
    · May 06, 2016 · 08:30 pm
  • The tale of the self-renewing virgin shows how little seems to have changed since the Mahabharata

    The tale of the self-renewing virgin shows how little seems to have changed since the Mahabharata

    Mrinal Pande
    · May 04, 2016 · 05:30 pm
  • A life of learning: Wendy Doniger on becoming the woman who pretended to be who she was

    A life of learning: Wendy Doniger on becoming the woman who pretended to be who she was

    Wendy Doniger
    · Apr 25, 2016 · 08:00 am
  • Tribute: Filmmaker Altaf Mazid was a man of global ideas and hyper-local concerns

    Tribute: Filmmaker Altaf Mazid was a man of global ideas and hyper-local concerns

    Shaheen Ahmed
    · Apr 14, 2016 · 08:18 pm
  • Riddle No. 1: The difficulty of knowing why one is a Hindu

    Riddle No. 1: The difficulty of knowing why one is a Hindu

    BR Ambedkar with Kancha Ilaiah
    · Apr 14, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • What the lives of the five virgins of the Ramayan and Mahabharat can teach us

    What the lives of the five virgins of the Ramayan and Mahabharat can teach us

    Mrinal Pande
    · Mar 30, 2016 · 11:30 am
  • You cannot question the Art of Living event, it's too big

    You cannot question the Art of Living event, it's too big

    Ipsita Chakravarty
    · Mar 12, 2016 · 10:06 pm
  • How the Ramayana in Persian became a romance as well as a heroic saga without Sita

    How the Ramayana in Persian became a romance as well as a heroic saga without Sita

    Audrey Truschke
    · Mar 10, 2016 · 08:30 am
  • 'Authentic' Vande Mataram Library aims to challenge Sheldon Pollock's 'foreign' one

    'Authentic' Vande Mataram Library aims to challenge Sheldon Pollock's 'foreign' one

    Mridula Chari
    · Mar 08, 2016 · 09:15 am
  • 'I love the form of the novel in stories, it's got the best of both'

    'I love the form of the novel in stories, it's got the best of both'

    Oindrila Mukherjee
    · Mar 06, 2016 · 07:30 pm
  • A reader’s guide to the 24 books that have won the Sahitya Akademi awards

    A reader’s guide to the 24 books that have won the Sahitya Akademi awards

    Devapriya Roy
    · Feb 21, 2016 · 03:30 pm
  • Delhi weekend cultural calendar: A Rodney Branigan show, talks on nationalism, and more

    Delhi weekend cultural calendar: A Rodney Branigan show, talks on nationalism, and more

    The Daily Pao
    · Feb 19, 2016 · 01:50 pm
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