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

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 26, 2018 · 02:38 pm
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    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

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    · Aug 28, 2018 · 04:28 pm
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    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
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    ‘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
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    ‘I wanted to write a Mahabharata novel that spoke about the nature of masculinity’

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

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    · 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
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    After UP minister says Narad was Google, RSS leader calls the mythological sage the first journalist

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    · Jun 04, 2018 · 02:55 pm
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    Sita was born through test tube technology, claims Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

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    · Jun 01, 2018 · 03:51 pm
  • Live telecast began during the time of Mahabharata, claims Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

    Live telecast began during the time of Mahabharata, claims Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

    Scroll Staff
    · May 31, 2018 · 05:21 pm
  • This novel about the Hindu god Kartikeya tries bravely to twist old myths into untold new stories

    This novel about the Hindu god Kartikeya tries bravely to twist old myths into untold new stories

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · May 13, 2018 · 07:00 am
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