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  • 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’

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

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  • 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

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

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  • 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

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  • 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
  • As Covid-19 crisis unfolds, Modi could dispel negativity by starting an honest national conversation

    As Covid-19 crisis unfolds, Modi could dispel negativity by starting an honest national conversation

    Anjali Mody
    · Apr 03, 2020 · 06:30 am
  • Excerpt: How (and why) the ‘Ramayana’ TV serial brought much of India to a standstill in the 1980s

    Excerpt: How (and why) the ‘Ramayana’ TV serial brought much of India to a standstill in the 1980s

    Amrita Shah
    · Mar 30, 2020 · 10:00 am
  • Arjuna’s arrows had nuclear power, claims West Bengal governor at science fair

    Arjuna’s arrows had nuclear power, claims West Bengal governor at science fair

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    · Jan 15, 2020 · 10:11 am
  • What Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Madhavi’ tells us about female agency (or the lack of it) in the Mahabharata

    What Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Madhavi’ tells us about female agency (or the lack of it) in the Mahabharata

    Pratiti
    · Jan 04, 2020 · 08:30 am
  • How a cafe owner and Rajiv Gandhi contributed to Ramanand Sagar’s blockbuster TV show ‘Ramayan’

    How a cafe owner and Rajiv Gandhi contributed to Ramanand Sagar’s blockbuster TV show ‘Ramayan’

    Prem Sagar
    · Dec 14, 2019 · 02:30 pm
  • Parliament: ‘Many called me worst finance minister, but I hear them out,’ says Nirmala Sitharaman

    Parliament: ‘Many called me worst finance minister, but I hear them out,’ says Nirmala Sitharaman

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    · Dec 02, 2019 · 12:17 pm
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    Devdutt Pattanaik and Amruta Patil pick a minor myth for their graphic novel about forest mystique

    Rituparna Sengupta
    · Nov 23, 2019 · 07:30 am
  • 10,000 people charged with sedition in one Jharkhand district. What does democracy mean here?

    10,000 people charged with sedition in one Jharkhand district. What does democracy mean here?

    Supriya Sharma
    · Nov 19, 2019 · 09:00 am
  • ‘If there’s one successful sci-fi movie, there will be 20 more’: ‘House Arrest’ director Samit Basu

    ‘If there’s one successful sci-fi movie, there will be 20 more’: ‘House Arrest’ director Samit Basu

    Devarsi Ghosh
    · Nov 11, 2019 · 08:00 am
  • What really is Indian Right-wing thinking? Jaithirth ‘Jerry’ Rao explains the ideas behind his book

    What really is Indian Right-wing thinking? Jaithirth ‘Jerry’ Rao explains the ideas behind his book

    Jaithirth Rao
    · Nov 02, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • What if there’s an ancient temple under your office? Twitter parody of Ayodhya case sparks confusion

    What if there’s an ancient temple under your office? Twitter parody of Ayodhya case sparks confusion

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Oct 19, 2019 · 04:23 pm
  • PUBG and Warcraft can’t teach the life lessons that these traditional Indian board games did

    PUBG and Warcraft can’t teach the life lessons that these traditional Indian board games did

    Mallik Thatipalli
    · Oct 16, 2019 · 11:30 am
  • Babri Masjid case: Archaeological evidence rules out present-day Ayodhya as city of sacred texts

    Babri Masjid case: Archaeological evidence rules out present-day Ayodhya as city of sacred texts

    Rajesh Kochhar
    · Sep 07, 2019 · 12:30 pm
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