Draupadi’s Rage
Her story has been repeatedly retold by women writers because the epic heroine challenges patriarchy
03 September 2021
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
Jairam Ramesh chronicles the life of Edwin Arnold who took Buddha’s ideas to the West via a narrative poem
25 June 2021
Bound by the Need for Breath
The discrete and distinct joys of reading poets Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote
07 May 2021
Forest of Ideas
Keerthik Sasidharan reimagines the Mahabharata to find meaning for the 21st century reader
05 February 2021
Exile and Kingdom
Returning to the epics to find pandemic metaphors not in war but in acts of generosity and kindness
25 December 2020
The Original Existential Hero
We stay with Rama-the-human because of his resemblance to us
07 August 2020
Authors
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 an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s Islam
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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