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Mahabharata

This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it

Ira Mukhoty
· Yesterday · 05:30 pm
Why have we lost the spirit of questioning handed down by the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics?

Shashi Deshpande
· Jul 25, 2021 · 08:30 am
How Arjuna from ‘Mahabharata’ and Rustam from Iran’s ‘Shahnamah’ are strikingly similar

Alireza Sedighi
· Jul 11, 2021 · 09:30 pm
Draupadi and Kunti are living in modern-day India. The Pandavas arrive to ‘protect’ them

Trisha Das
· Jun 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’

Hemang Desai
· May 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm
The lesser known Mahabharata: How Gandhari’s curse decimated Krishna’s clan

Uday Shankar
· Apr 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm
When did Bhishma die? A reading of the Mahabharata reveals a startling possibility

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
· Jan 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm
This Kurukshetra war novel explores conflicted loyalties and erotic jealousies of complex characters

Keerthik Sasidharan
· Dec 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm
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
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
As the Amazon burns, the Mahabharata episode of Khandava forest fire serves up an important reminder

Girish Shahane
· Aug 29, 2019 · 07:30 am
How a poetic retelling of the Mahabharata warns us against the rhetoric of vengeance and sacrifice

Nachiket Joshi
· Mar 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Your Morning Fix: ‘Kauravas example of stem cell research,’ a claim made at Indian Science Congress

Scroll Staff
· Jan 07, 2019 · 06:30 am
Kauravas were test tube babies, claims Andhra University vice chancellor at Indian Science Congress

Scroll Staff
· Jan 05, 2019 · 10:31 am
How did the ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharata’ come to be (and what has ‘dharma’ got to do with it)?

Devdutt Pattanaik
· Dec 13, 2018 · 08:30 am
An unexpected swayamvara: This novel recreates the story of Amba from the Mahabharata

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
· Dec 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm
‘Putting brownness against a brown background compelled me to dig deeper’: Writer Akil Kumarasamy

Urvashi Bahuguna
· Nov 25, 2018 · 12:30 pm
Mythological fiction in India is finally heading off the beaten path

Urmi Chanda-Vaz
· Nov 18, 2018 · 08:30 am
Why the polytheism of Hindus (and their texts) leaves the monotheistic West confused

Saikat Majumdar
· Nov 02, 2018 · 08:30 am
Fake news, faeces, fear: Aditya Iyengar’s Mahabharata strips greatness and godliness from the war

Urmi Chanda-Vaz
· Jul 15, 2018 · 12:30 pm