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  • Why do so few Indian authors write novels about terrorism, asks a writer

    Why do so few Indian authors write novels about terrorism, asks a writer

    Sirsho Bandopadhyay
    · Dec 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • Film based on Anand Neelakantan’s Ramayana spinoff ‘Vanara’ in the works

    Film based on Anand Neelakantan’s Ramayana spinoff ‘Vanara’ in the works

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 01, 2018 · 04:54 pm
  • An artist wants to reignite interest in India’s tribal masks through her illustrations

    An artist wants to reignite interest in India’s tribal masks through her illustrations

    Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
    · Nov 25, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • Mythological fiction in India is finally heading off the beaten path

    Mythological fiction in India is finally heading off the beaten path

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Nov 18, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • BJP’s major achievement in Rajasthan: Rewriting school textbooks to reflect RSS worldview

    BJP’s major achievement in Rajasthan: Rewriting school textbooks to reflect RSS worldview

    Shreya Roy Chowdhury
    · Nov 14, 2018 · 09:00 am
  • ‘Ram or crackers had no place in my Diwali’: A Marwari Jain laments homogenisation of the festival

    ‘Ram or crackers had no place in my Diwali’: A Marwari Jain laments homogenisation of the festival

    Mahima Jain
    · Nov 06, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • ‘It’s how they roll on your tongue that matters, not how they sit on the page’: Poet Mani Rao

    ‘It’s how they roll on your tongue that matters, not how they sit on the page’: Poet Mani Rao

    Rohini Kejriwal
    · Oct 07, 2018 · 07:00 am
  • Film adaptation of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel on Drapaudi in the works

    Film adaptation of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel on Drapaudi in the works

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 26, 2018 · 02:38 pm
  • Arranged marriages are a compromise between kama optimists and kama pessimists, writes Gurcharan Das

    Arranged marriages are a compromise between kama optimists and kama pessimists, writes Gurcharan Das

    Gurcharan Das
    · Sep 20, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb claims ducks increase oxygen levels in water bodies, draws criticism

    Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb claims ducks increase oxygen levels in water bodies, draws criticism

    Scroll Staff
    · Aug 28, 2018 · 04:28 pm
  • What is ‘Indian food’ anyway? Even the epics revealed little of the menu, wrote Buddhadeva Bose

    What is ‘Indian food’ anyway? Even the epics revealed little of the menu, wrote Buddhadeva Bose

    Buddhadeva Bose
    · Aug 07, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • A philatelist’s love for the ‘Ramayana’ has led her to build a collection based on the Hindu epic

    A philatelist’s love for the ‘Ramayana’ has led her to build a collection based on the Hindu epic

    Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
    · Aug 06, 2018 · 03:30 pm
  • ‘The Birth of Kali’: Women from mythology reclaim their space in the stories men wrote about them

    ‘The Birth of Kali’: Women from mythology reclaim their space in the stories men wrote about them

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Aug 06, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • ‘There was a fear that someone would just skip this’: Saif Ali Khan on Netflix series ‘Sacred Games’

    ‘There was a fear that someone would just skip this’: Saif Ali Khan on Netflix series ‘Sacred Games’

    Chandrima Pal
    · Jul 17, 2018 · 08:15 am
  • Ramayana vs Ramayana: In Kerala, CPI(M) outfit to hold seminars on various versions of epic

    Ramayana vs Ramayana: In Kerala, CPI(M) outfit to hold seminars on various versions of epic

    TA Ameerudheen
    · Jul 15, 2018 · 06:30 am
  • When a Dalit questions Ramayana, it becomes anti-national, says film critic banished from Hyderabad

    When a Dalit questions Ramayana, it becomes anti-national, says film critic banished from Hyderabad

    Mridula Chari
    · Jul 14, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • Emotion, romance, eroticism: Devdutt Pattanaik explores the multiple sources of the Krishna legends

    Emotion, romance, eroticism: Devdutt Pattanaik explores the multiple sources of the Krishna legends

    Devdutt Pattanaik
    · Jul 09, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • ‘I wanted to write a Mahabharata novel that spoke about the nature of masculinity’

    ‘I wanted to write a Mahabharata novel that spoke about the nature of masculinity’

    Jai Arjun Singh
    · Jul 07, 2018 · 07:45 am
  • Readers’ comments on TN teacher transfer: Teaching does not get the respect it deserves in India

    Readers’ comments on TN teacher transfer: Teaching does not get the respect it deserves in India

    Scroll
    · Jun 24, 2018 · 10:30 pm
  • ‘Mahabharata’ doesn’t belong to one country or race – Peter Brook’s nine-hour play is proof of that

    ‘Mahabharata’ doesn’t belong to one country or race – Peter Brook’s nine-hour play is proof of that

    Sanjukta Sharma
    · Jun 14, 2018 · 11:30 am
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