Bibek Debroy
Bibek Debroy has translated the Mahabharata and the Valmiki Ramayana into English. He is the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
Found in Translation
Arshia Sattar’s version of the Ramayana’s final book raises questions on Rama’s actions
04 January 2017
What’s the Matter with Mind?
A meditation on the nine-gated city and noble thoughts
15 December 2016
Nothing Is for Your Eyes Only
Welcome to the world beyond human sensory organs
17 November 2016
What Numbers Don’t Tell
What makes a country rich and why did India fall behind?
27 October 2016
How to Be a God
Definitions collapse as the divine sparkles in everyone
20 October 2016
The Sacred Cow: An Epic Stature
Reading the Mahabharata in search of the sacred cow
15 September 2016
Vedic Food for Thought
Eating red meat and reading the Bhagavat Gita
25 August 2016
Superheroes in a Karmic Battle
What the nameless soldier tells us about the morality as well as sociology of wars past and present
28 July 2016
The Faux Stages of Man
The fourfold ashrama classification is a forced attempt to over-simplify the individual
07 July 2016
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 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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