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epics

  • Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle

    Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle

    Joshua Forstenzer, The Conversation
    · May 15, 2025 · 08:30 pm
  • ‘Not the Rama we’re familiar with’: The different Ramayanas across South-East Asia

    ‘Not the Rama we’re familiar with’: The different Ramayanas across South-East Asia

    Kaushik Barua
    · Oct 27, 2024 · 07:30 am
  • For young readers: A tale from the ‘Ramayana’ about how the squirrel got its three stripes

    For young readers: A tale from the ‘Ramayana’ about how the squirrel got its three stripes

    Nityananda Charan Das
    · Mar 10, 2023 · 11:30 am
  • How did the ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharata’ come to be (and what has ‘dharma’ got to do with it)?

    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
  • What is ‘Indian food’ anyway? Even the epics revealed little of the menu, wrote Buddhadeva Bose

    What is ‘Indian food’ anyway? Even the epics revealed little of the menu, wrote Buddhadeva Bose

    Buddhadeva Bose
    · Aug 07, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • Why I write about the ‘minor’ women characters from the epics

    Why I write about the ‘minor’ women characters from the epics

    Kavita Kané
    · Dec 31, 2017 · 10:30 am
  • Meet the characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (and find out why)

    Meet the characters who appear in both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (and find out why)

    Devdutt Pattanaik
    · May 27, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • The new Ramayana for children is entirely sweet, and the sour is missing

    The new Ramayana for children is entirely sweet, and the sour is missing

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Oct 08, 2016 · 12:30 pm
  • Ambedkar vs Dronacharya: Why Gurugram is just the RSS telling us who's boss

    Ambedkar vs Dronacharya: Why Gurugram is just the RSS telling us who's boss

    Kancha Ilaiah
    · Apr 20, 2016 · 04:30 pm