Arshia Sattar is an author and translator. Her most recent translation is Tales from the Kathasaritsagara
The importance of righteous rage, from the ancient epics to the revolutions of today
War and morality in the Mahabharata
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
Her story has been repeatedly retold by women writers because the epic heroine challenges patriarchy
Women characters in the Mahabharata push back against patriarchy in a new interpretation of the epic
Jairam Ramesh chronicles the life of Edwin Arnold who took Buddha’s ideas to the West via a narrative poem
The discrete and distinct joys of reading poets Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote
The magical realism of a Sanskrit classic retold
Keerthik Sasidharan reimagines the Mahabharata to find meaning for the 21st century reader
Returning to the epics to find pandemic metaphors not in war but in acts of generosity and kindness
CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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