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  • Why have Indian historians failed to combat ‘WhatsApp history’?

    Why have Indian historians failed to combat ‘WhatsApp history’?

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Nov 10, 2024 · 08:00 am
  • Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology

    Ranjit Hoskote on picking texts from India’s 2,500-year literary tradition for a new anthology

    Ranjit Hoskote
    · Oct 18, 2024 · 09:30 am
  • A new book argues that all the major religions of the world have similar cores of spiritual teaching

    A new book argues that all the major religions of the world have similar cores of spiritual teaching

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  • Why Akbar was a staunch believer in sulh-e-kul or complete harmony among all faiths in his empire

    Why Akbar was a staunch believer in sulh-e-kul or complete harmony among all faiths in his empire

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    · Sep 18, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

    Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

    Rajiv Thind
    · Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • Translated play: Rajat must deal with an honest, ailing playwright and a sanctimonious civil servant

    Translated play: Rajat must deal with an honest, ailing playwright and a sanctimonious civil servant

    Swadesh Deepak Jerry Pinto
    · Aug 20, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India

    Fiction: Farrukh Dhondy’s new short stories depict growing up in Bombay in a newly independent India

    Farrukh Dhondy
    · Jul 31, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘Gurram Jashuva showed that stigmatised people are worthy of poetry’: Translator Chinnaiah Jangam

    ‘Gurram Jashuva showed that stigmatised people are worthy of poetry’: Translator Chinnaiah Jangam

    Saurabh Sharma
    · Jun 22, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • Was Ram really a ‘source of inspiration’ for the Constitution as Modi claims?

    Was Ram really a ‘source of inspiration’ for the Constitution as Modi claims?

    Abhik Deb
    · Feb 01, 2024 · 06:30 am
  • Scroll@10: Food battles, Bahubali cities and other confrontations in the world of Indian culture

    Scroll@10: Food battles, Bahubali cities and other confrontations in the world of Indian culture

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 28, 2024 · 08:00 am
  • Why Hindutva groups want to reshape Birsa Munda’s legend

    Why Hindutva groups want to reshape Birsa Munda’s legend

    Nolina Minj
    · Jan 24, 2024 · 09:00 am
  • India deeply disappointed Frieda Hauswirth, but she never gave up writing about it

    India deeply disappointed Frieda Hauswirth, but she never gave up writing about it

    Anu Kumar
    · Jan 09, 2024 · 11:30 am
  • The Prambaran Temple in Java illustrates the vitality of Hinduism in historical South-East Asia

    The Prambaran Temple in Java illustrates the vitality of Hinduism in historical South-East Asia

    Karan Singh
    · Dec 27, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Centre says NCERT will encourage use of ‘Bharatiya’ languages

    Centre says NCERT will encourage use of ‘Bharatiya’ languages

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 07, 2023 · 01:47 pm
  • NCERT panel recommends including Ramayana, Mahabharata in school history textbooks

    NCERT panel recommends including Ramayana, Mahabharata in school history textbooks

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 22, 2023 · 10:29 am
  • Goddesses tamed: Is a unified religious identity recasting female deities in a passive mould?

    Goddesses tamed: Is a unified religious identity recasting female deities in a passive mould?

    Sarveswar Sipoy
    · Nov 10, 2023 · 09:00 am
  • How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?

    How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?

    Yousuf Saeed
    · Oct 24, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • Should cinema stay away from religion altogether? Here’s what Devdutt Pattanaik has to say

    Should cinema stay away from religion altogether? Here’s what Devdutt Pattanaik has to say

    Nandini Ramnath
    · Aug 23, 2023 · 08:15 am
  • In Sanskrit plays, paradise is always lost, but the attempt to regain it never ends

    In Sanskrit plays, paradise is always lost, but the attempt to regain it never ends

    Shashi Deshpande
    · Aug 12, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • ‘Swarajya’, ‘Kalki’: Magazines that reflected economic conservatism in independent India after 1947

    ‘Swarajya’, ‘Kalki’: Magazines that reflected economic conservatism in independent India after 1947

    Aditya Balasubramanian
    · Aug 08, 2023 · 08:30 am
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