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

· 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

‘I wanted to write a Mahabharata novel that spoke about the nature of masculinity’

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jul 07, 2018 · 07:45 am

‘Mahabharata’ doesn’t belong to one country or race – Peter Brook’s nine-hour play is proof of that

Sanjukta Sharma

· Jun 14, 2018 · 11:30 am