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Arshia Sattar

Arshia Sattar is an author and translator. Her most recent translation is Tales from the Kathasaritsagara

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Classic Power Play

A vintage satirical gem from Bihar

21 June 2024
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Mad with Love

An ancient romance as a spiritual allegory

12 April 2024
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Writing in the Dark

Raj Kamal Jha’s fiction transforms the news from something that fades into the past into a hologram of the present

25 January 2024
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Mayhem in the Metropolis

An elegy to a Mumbai destroyed by greed and cynicism

01 September 2023
Cover Stories
Mapping Women’s Anger

The importance of righteous rage, from the ancient epics to the revolutions of today

23 December 2022
Can God Die?
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Can God Die?

War and morality in the Mahabharata

23 September 2022
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Thresholds of Time and Space

A finely delineated and sharply observed story of a middle-class Delhi family during Partition, by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize. A first for a translation from India

22 April 2022
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Draupadi’s Rage

Her story has been repeatedly retold by women writers because the epic heroine challenges patriarchy

03 September 2021
Arshia Sattar
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Resistance and Resilience

Women characters in the Mahabharata push back against patriarchy in a new interpretation of the epic

20 August 2021
Wisdom of the East
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Wisdom of the East

Jairam Ramesh chronicles the life of Edwin Arnold who took Buddha’s ideas to the West via a narrative poem

25 June 2021

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Ram Madhav

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Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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