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  • Why have we lost the spirit of questioning handed down by the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics?

    Why have we lost the spirit of questioning handed down by the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics?

    Shashi Deshpande
    · Jul 25, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • This book imagines the life of Queen Ruupmati of Malwa, in (supposedly) her own words

    This book imagines the life of Queen Ruupmati of Malwa, in (supposedly) her own words

    Priyadarshi Thakur ‘Khayal’
    · Jun 28, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta tribute: A chronicler of dreamers in a hostile world

    Buddhadeb Dasgupta tribute: A chronicler of dreamers in a hostile world

    Devarsi Ghosh
    · Jun 10, 2021 · 11:14 am
  • ‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha

    ‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on the Buddha

    Jairam Ramesh
    · Jun 08, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Haunting guide: Aacheri or Besho Bhoot? Kollivai Pisaasu or Ulkamukhi? Can you identify all ghosts?

    Haunting guide: Aacheri or Besho Bhoot? Kollivai Pisaasu or Ulkamukhi? Can you identify all ghosts?

    Riksundar Banerjee
    · May 21, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Hindutva is the woke culture of India

    Hindutva is the woke culture of India

    @Kaeshour
    · May 14, 2021 · 11:30 am
  • Ray 100: Satyajit Ray on his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, whom he never saw

    Ray 100: Satyajit Ray on his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, whom he never saw

    Satyajit Ray
    · May 02, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Secularism biggest threat to India’s traditions finding a spot on global stage, says Adityanath

    Secularism biggest threat to India’s traditions finding a spot on global stage, says Adityanath

    Scroll Staff
    · Mar 07, 2021 · 12:55 pm
  • How the retelling of old tales in new form creates an economy of fiction that can trigger change

    How the retelling of old tales in new form creates an economy of fiction that can trigger change

    Varsha Ramachandran
    · Mar 07, 2021 · 12:30 pm
  • MJ Akbar vs Priya Ramani: Reading between the lines of the Ramayana tales cited by the judge

    MJ Akbar vs Priya Ramani: Reading between the lines of the Ramayana tales cited by the judge

    Madhavi Menon
    · Feb 21, 2021 · 09:00 am
  • A woman cannot be punished for raising voice against sexual abuse: Court in MJ Akbar defamation case

    A woman cannot be punished for raising voice against sexual abuse: Court in MJ Akbar defamation case

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 17, 2021 · 08:56 pm
  • From ‘Mile Sur’ to ‘Freedom Run’ and ‘Desh Raga’: How Louiz Banks knitted the music together

    From ‘Mile Sur’ to ‘Freedom Run’ and ‘Desh Raga’: How Louiz Banks knitted the music together

    Ashis Ghatak
    · Feb 16, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Indians should stop reading too much into the artwork on the Constitution and instead heed its words

    Indians should stop reading too much into the artwork on the Constitution and instead heed its words

    Shreyas Narla
    · Jan 26, 2021 · 06:30 am
  • Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’

    Why Premchand said, ‘The ascent of literature is the ascent of a nation’

    Premchand
    · Dec 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm
  • Buddhadeb Dasgupta: ‘Put some dreams, magic, reality into a glass and shake it. That’s my cinema’

    Buddhadeb Dasgupta: ‘Put some dreams, magic, reality into a glass and shake it. That’s my cinema’

    Devarsi Ghosh
    · Nov 26, 2020 · 10:30 am
  • What it meant to write and publish books on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana during the pandemic

    What it meant to write and publish books on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana during the pandemic

    Arshia Sattar
    · Nov 14, 2020 · 08:30 am
  • Hathras gangrape is a reminder that no party really cares about women or Dalits

    Hathras gangrape is a reminder that no party really cares about women or Dalits

    Shashi Deshpande
    · Oct 31, 2020 · 07:30 am
  • On a different wavelength: Why Vanraj Bhatia is the foremost composer of Hindi New Wave cinema

    On a different wavelength: Why Vanraj Bhatia is the foremost composer of Hindi New Wave cinema

    Shwetant Kumar
    · Sep 20, 2020 · 12:00 pm
  • SC grants interim protection to Prashant Bhushan in case over comments on re-run of mythology shows

    SC grants interim protection to Prashant Bhushan in case over comments on re-run of mythology shows

    Scroll Staff
    · May 01, 2020 · 05:27 pm
  • Watch: Amul posts its old television commercials from the 1990s to ride the ‘Ramayan’ nostalgia wave

    Watch: Amul posts its old television commercials from the 1990s to ride the ‘Ramayan’ nostalgia wave

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 06, 2020 · 08:42 am
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