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  • ‘Padmaavat’ film review: A saga of love, honour and death as beautiful as it is bloodless

    ‘Padmaavat’ film review: A saga of love, honour and death as beautiful as it is bloodless

    Nandini Ramnath
    · Jan 24, 2018 · 07:45 am
  • Instead of noble heroes, a dance piece tells the stories of Ramayana’s most conflicted characters

    Instead of noble heroes, a dance piece tells the stories of Ramayana’s most conflicted characters

    Malini Nair
    · Jan 18, 2018 · 03:30 pm
  • Meet Mahavatar Babaji, the guru who inspires Rajinikanth’s ‘spiritual politics’

    Meet Mahavatar Babaji, the guru who inspires Rajinikanth’s ‘spiritual politics’

    Sruthisagar Yamunan
    · Jan 03, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • Ram Rajya would certainly have space for Chanakya. But Ram is not Chanakya’s ideal for a king

    Ram Rajya would certainly have space for Chanakya. But Ram is not Chanakya’s ideal for a king

    Devdutt Pattanaik
    · Dec 09, 2017 · 08:00 am
  • Chuck that kiwi: It’s time Indian restaurants and homes try these mouth-watering native fruit

    Chuck that kiwi: It’s time Indian restaurants and homes try these mouth-watering native fruit

    Simrit Malhi
    · Nov 11, 2017 · 11:30 am
  • A ritual of rooftop meetings led to Perumal Murugan’s anthology of Tamil writing on caste

    A ritual of rooftop meetings led to Perumal Murugan’s anthology of Tamil writing on caste

    Perumal Murugan
    · Oct 27, 2017 · 05:30 pm
  • Protests in Kerala over saffron books in schools, circular calling for a tribute to Sangh leader

    Protests in Kerala over saffron books in schools, circular calling for a tribute to Sangh leader

    TA Ameerudheen
    · Oct 26, 2017 · 10:30 am
  • This book claims to expose the myths behind Kashmir’s history. It exposes its own biases instead

    This book claims to expose the myths behind Kashmir’s history. It exposes its own biases instead

    Chitralekha Zutshi
    · Oct 24, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Cameos from Kashmir: These fractured vignettes show the contradictions of the land

    Cameos from Kashmir: These fractured vignettes show the contradictions of the land

    Arvind Gigoo
    · Oct 19, 2017 · 05:30 pm
  • Inspiration for the lazy, the casual and the gourmet home chefs alike

    Inspiration for the lazy, the casual and the gourmet home chefs alike

    · Oct 10, 2017 · 12:52 pm
  • How Gujarat Congress embraced conservatism: The story of MK Gandhi, Indulal Yagnik and Sardar Patel

    How Gujarat Congress embraced conservatism: The story of MK Gandhi, Indulal Yagnik and Sardar Patel

    Christophe Jaffrelot
    · Oct 06, 2017 · 08:00 am
  • Tom Alter (1950-2017): The actor, sports lover and reciter of Urdu poetry

    Tom Alter (1950-2017): The actor, sports lover and reciter of Urdu poetry

    Devarsi Ghosh
    · Sep 30, 2017 · 07:33 am
  • Three thousand years of erotica are fabulously encapsulated, but can’t erotica only be about sex?

    Three thousand years of erotica are fabulously encapsulated, but can’t erotica only be about sex?

    Madhavi Menon
    · Sep 08, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • The Goddess of Stone Pelters: In Uttarakhand, hurling stones is a hallowed tradition

    The Goddess of Stone Pelters: In Uttarakhand, hurling stones is a hallowed tradition

    Mrinal Pande
    · Aug 31, 2017 · 12:30 pm
  • How Voltaire’s reflections on Buddha shaped the way the West understands Buddhism today

    How Voltaire’s reflections on Buddha shaped the way the West understands Buddhism today

    The Public Domain Review
    · Aug 16, 2017 · 08:30 pm
  • Why India must push back against China’s claims of being Asia’s natural leader

    Why India must push back against China’s claims of being Asia’s natural leader

    Shyam Saran
    · Jul 27, 2017 · 08:30 pm
  • When will young Pakistani women find their own fiery brand of revolution? Or is it here already?

    When will young Pakistani women find their own fiery brand of revolution? Or is it here already?

    Aneela Zeb Babar
    · Jul 25, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

    Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

    Syed Nomanul Haq
    · Jul 16, 2017 · 09:30 pm
  • Who’d have thought Satyavati of the ‘Mahabharata’ was as beguiling as this as a girl?

    Who’d have thought Satyavati of the ‘Mahabharata’ was as beguiling as this as a girl?

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Jul 16, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • An artist in every home: How a village in Odisha keeps local art and dance alive

    An artist in every home: How a village in Odisha keeps local art and dance alive

    Jael Silliman
    · Jul 06, 2017 · 09:30 pm
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