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    Peshawar’s fragile links with Bollywood royalty are in ruins

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

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

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

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  • 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

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    Rare manuscripts that show how Indian epics shaped Malay literary traditions

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

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

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  • 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
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  • Reversing the ‘Mahabharata’ to challenge entrenched assumptions

    Reversing the ‘Mahabharata’ to challenge entrenched assumptions

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  • 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'

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    · 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

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

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  • 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

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    Anuradha Roy’s ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’ is that rare being: a literary page-turner

    Sumana Roy
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    Was the Ramayana actually set in and around today’s Afghanistan?

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    14 books shortlisted for the Crossword Popular Choice award

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    These miniature paintings show how the Mughals and other Indians royals celebrated Holi

    Scroll Staff
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