Nanditha Krishna is a historian, author and environmentalist, and director of the CPR Institute of Indological Research in Chennai
He drove away north-western tribes, which have attacked India over millennia, from the river Ravi
The elephant-headed God as the ultimate conservation icon
The rising number of Covid-19 cases in the meat industry worldwide raises concerns about potential pandemics
Rama’s memory lives on because of his extraordinary life and persona
The terracotta plaque represents Krishna and Arjuna in the epic battle
Raja Ravi Varma’s oleographs turn 125
Muslim iconoclasm and the Hindu response
Why is it that many Supreme Court rulings go unimplemented in the South?
Adi Shankara embodied the spiritual power of ideas
Instead of searching for truths in myths, it would be easier if we appreciated the scientific achievements of ancient Indians
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 an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
Ram Madhav is Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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