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  • Tripura CM’s claims about internet in Mahabharat era inspires hilarious memes on ancient Indian tech

    Tripura CM’s claims about internet in Mahabharat era inspires hilarious memes on ancient Indian tech

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 20, 2018 · 02:07 pm
  • ‘They fought over WiFi’: Twitter laughs about Tripura CM’s claims about internet in Mahabharata era

    ‘They fought over WiFi’: Twitter laughs about Tripura CM’s claims about internet in Mahabharata era

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 18, 2018 · 02:51 pm
  • Internet existed during the Mahabharata, says Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb

    Internet existed during the Mahabharata, says Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 18, 2018 · 10:00 am
  • ‘He who created god is a fool’: Periyar believed religion and rationality are complete opposites

    ‘He who created god is a fool’: Periyar believed religion and rationality are complete opposites

    MSS Pandian
    · Mar 12, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • What the Modi government’s ‘committee to rewrite history’ is really studying

    What the Modi government’s ‘committee to rewrite history’ is really studying

    Shreya Roy Chowdhury
    · Mar 10, 2018 · 06:30 am
  • India's fundamentalist government is rewriting history (but it has a millions-of-years-old problem)

    India's fundamentalist government is rewriting history (but it has a millions-of-years-old problem)

    Girish Shahane
    · Mar 07, 2018 · 08:00 am
  • Sridevi had the greatest impact on this film industry (and it is not Hindi or Tamil)

    Sridevi had the greatest impact on this film industry (and it is not Hindi or Tamil)

    Rama Mohan Kavuturu
    · Feb 25, 2018 · 03:30 pm
  • Bright spots you may have missed: A relic hunter’s quest for hidden chapter of history – and more

    Bright spots you may have missed: A relic hunter’s quest for hidden chapter of history – and more

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 25, 2018 · 10:30 am
  • Meet ‘Mangasia’, the book and exhibition on Asian comics – and the man behind it

    Meet ‘Mangasia’, the book and exhibition on Asian comics – and the man behind it

    Debkumar Mitra
    · Feb 24, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • ‘Hindutva calling itself a version of Hinduism is problematic’: Historian Romila Thapar

    ‘Hindutva calling itself a version of Hinduism is problematic’: Historian Romila Thapar

    Ruchika Sharma
    · Feb 04, 2018 · 10:30 am
  • Remembering Chandi Lahiri, the unapologetic Bengali cartoonist who never made it beyond his state

    Remembering Chandi Lahiri, the unapologetic Bengali cartoonist who never made it beyond his state

    Debkumar Mitra
    · Jan 28, 2018 · 06:30 pm
  • From dissing Darwin to yogic farming: A short history of the BJP’s brush with pseudoscience

    From dissing Darwin to yogic farming: A short history of the BJP’s brush with pseudoscience

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Jan 21, 2018 · 06:37 pm
  • 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
  • It took a translation to hear the stories of this Greek epic the way a woman would have told them

    It took a translation to hear the stories of this Greek epic the way a woman would have told them

    Veena Muthuraman
    · Dec 24, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Is a belief in the eternal purity of the Ganga aiding its destruction? A writer has some answers

    Is a belief in the eternal purity of the Ganga aiding its destruction? A writer has some answers

    Nicholas Gordon
    · Dec 17, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • How the decline of Pakistani film music led to the rise of ghazals and pop

    How the decline of Pakistani film music led to the rise of ghazals and pop

    Ishtiaq Ahmed
    · Dec 10, 2017 · 11:30 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
  • Did the RSS rise in Assam by projecting Bharat Mata as a counter to the ideology of the ULFA?

    Did the RSS rise in Assam by projecting Bharat Mata as a counter to the ideology of the ULFA?

    Rajat Sethi Shubhrastha
    · Dec 05, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Sakti Burman: The artist who’s the heir to the poets who composed Ramayana and Mahabharata

    Sakti Burman: The artist who’s the heir to the poets who composed Ramayana and Mahabharata

    Ranjit Hoskote
    · Nov 18, 2017 · 03:30 pm
  • At last, a Bengali tells captivating stories about Bengalis, without self-delusion or sentimentality

    At last, a Bengali tells captivating stories about Bengalis, without self-delusion or sentimentality

    Swati Moitra
    · Nov 18, 2017 · 08:30 am
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