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  • 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
  • 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

    Scroll Staff
    · 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

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

    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
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