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Arshia Sattar

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

Bound by the Need for Breath
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Bound by the Need for Breath

The discrete and distinct joys of reading poets Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote

07 May 2021
Ocean of Stories
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Ocean of Stories

The magical realism of a Sanskrit classic retold

19 March 2021
Forest of Ideas
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Forest of Ideas

Keerthik Sasidharan reimagines the Mahabharata to find meaning for the 21st century reader

05 February 2021
Exile and Kingdom
Cover Stories
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 Wrong Girl
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The Wrong Girl

The Neapolitan magic is missing in the new Elena Ferrante

18 September 2020
The Original Existential Hero
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The Original Existential Hero

We stay with Rama-the-human because of his resemblance to us

07 August 2020
My Reading Life
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My Reading Life

Meeting a younger me through my bookcases

01 May 2020
My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Arshia Sattar, Author and translator
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My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Arshia Sattar, Author and translator

Anukruti Upadhyay’s Daura and Bhaunri

21 December 2019
Secret Voices
Essay
Being Liberated by Translations

Secret voices

09 August 2019
An illustration of Jayadeva’s 12th century Gita Govinda
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Infinite Passions

The many shades and shapes of love come alive in this exploration of Hinduism

04 October 2018

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

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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