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
Arshia Sattar’s version of the Ramayana’s final book raises questions on Rama’s actions
A meditation on the nine-gated city and noble thoughts
Of white, black and double black
Welcome to the world beyond human sensory organs
What makes a country rich and why did India fall behind?
Definitions collapse as the divine sparkles in everyone
Reading the Mahabharata in search of the sacred cow
Eating red meat and reading the Bhagavat Gita
What the nameless soldier tells us about the morality as well as sociology of wars past and present
The fourfold ashrama classification is a forced attempt to over-simplify the individual
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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