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Cash transfers, caste calculus: What was behind the Mahayuti’s sweep in Maharashtra?
‘The Shudra Rebellion’: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd studies the vital role of oppressed castes in India
How an Indian monk contributed to the understanding of Buddhism in China
Start the week with a film: Why ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’ is all the rage
A new book shows why the super-rich in India must strive to alleviate poverty and reduce inequality
Did Indian culture recognise an independent field of study called philosophy?
Interview: ‘In Manipur, rational voices on both sides are being silenced’
Gulzar on his daughter Meghna: ‘A piece of sun mingles in my blood, day and night’
Why the imagined opposition between academic and public historians needs to be questioned
Upamanyu Chatterjee’s ‘Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life’ wins the JCB Prize for Literature
The Indian media is acting like a Hindutva ally in its coverage of the violence in Canada
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Persian prose meets pulp fiction: How an 18th-century fairy tale became a multilingual phenomenon
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How Arjuna from ‘Mahabharata’ and Rustam from Iran’s ‘Shahnamah’ are strikingly similar
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· Jul 11, 2021 · 09:30 pm
From India to Iraq, the epic warrior Rustam appears in manuscripts with red hair. Why?
Dr Peyvand Firouzeh
· Jul 16, 2019 · 09:30 pm
