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  • 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
  • Peshawar’s fragile links with Bollywood royalty are in ruins

    Peshawar’s fragile links with Bollywood royalty are in ruins

    Catriona Luke
    · Feb 05, 2016 · 12:00 pm
  • Faith over rationalism: The Indian elite are making the same mistake as their Pakistani counterparts

    Faith over rationalism: The Indian elite are making the same mistake as their Pakistani counterparts

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Jan 09, 2016 · 09:15 am
  • How calendar art helped make the cow a divine figure in India

    How calendar art helped make the cow a divine figure in India

    Baisali Mohanty
    · Dec 24, 2015 · 03:30 pm
  • The DD Files: When Shah Rukh Khan stole hearts and the show in ‘Fauji’

    The DD Files: When Shah Rukh Khan stole hearts and the show in ‘Fauji’

    Chandrima Pal
    · Dec 07, 2015 · 10:00 am
  • How has the RSS culture produced a pragmatic man like Narendra Modi?

    How has the RSS culture produced a pragmatic man like Narendra Modi?

    S Nihal Singh
    · Nov 06, 2015 · 08:30 am
  • When it comes to Indian history, Amar Chitra Katha is the new normal

    When it comes to Indian history, Amar Chitra Katha is the new normal

    Kai Friese
    · Sep 29, 2015 · 12:30 pm
  • Rare manuscripts that show how Indian epics shaped Malay literary traditions

    Rare manuscripts that show how Indian epics shaped Malay literary traditions

    The British Library
    · Sep 23, 2015 · 12:30 pm
  • 'Narendra Modi's Akhand Bharat should rejoin all the broken hearts'

    'Narendra Modi's Akhand Bharat should rejoin all the broken hearts'

    Scroll
    · Sep 20, 2015 · 08:30 pm
  • Why MF Husain painted Hindu figures (but not Muslim ones) in the nude

    Why MF Husain painted Hindu figures (but not Muslim ones) in the nude

    Girish Shahane
    · Sep 17, 2015 · 01:38 pm
  • When a fringe Hindu group stopped a Muslim from writing about the Ramayana

    When a fringe Hindu group stopped a Muslim from writing about the Ramayana

    NS Madhavan
    · Sep 06, 2015 · 11:30 am
  • Reversing the ‘Mahabharata’ to challenge entrenched assumptions

    Reversing the ‘Mahabharata’ to challenge entrenched assumptions

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Aug 15, 2015 · 12:30 pm
  • Kancha Ilaiah: 'Neither the Sangh Parivar nor the Telangana government can arrest my pen'

    Kancha Ilaiah: 'Neither the Sangh Parivar nor the Telangana government can arrest my pen'

    Ajaz Ashraf
    · Jul 26, 2015 · 09:15 am
  • Why the BJP is appointing C-listers to head top institutions

    Why the BJP is appointing C-listers to head top institutions

    Girish Shahane
    · Jul 22, 2015 · 06:30 pm
  • ‘The Scion of Ikshvaku’ is quite the ‘Un-Ramayana’

    ‘The Scion of Ikshvaku’ is quite the ‘Un-Ramayana’

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Jun 28, 2015 · 05:30 pm
  • When women step out of Indian epics to express real desires and choices in real books

    When women step out of Indian epics to express real desires and choices in real books

    Shubhrastha
    · May 17, 2015 · 08:45 am
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