epic

The Wandering Ram

Ranjit Hoskote

The travelling Ramayana is a metaphor for Indian culture at its finest

Camera as Sketchbook

Somak Ghoshal

Rediscovering Jyoti Bhatt, the chronicler of living traditions

Epic Retellings

Poorna Swami

Dance and theatre productions upturn popular versions of characters and stories from the Ramayana

The World According to Valmiki Ramayana

Bibek Debroy

Rama and dharma

Blessed and Cursed

Malini Nair

Amruta Patil in her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata reimagines women as epic beings

The Mahabharata Moment

Bibek Debroy

An epic meditation on being and everythingness

Bibek Debroy has completed a ten-volume translation of the Mahabharata in English. Inside the mind of an economist with a difference whose daytime job nowadays is the restructuring of Indian Railways and duties as a permanent member of the recently formed NITI Aayog

Changing Epic Traditions

Sudha G. Tilak

The Ramayan holds interest for India’s contemporary generation a million years since its first oral telling.

The Mother of All Epics

TR Vivek

As a masterpiece of poetry, it remains unparalleled. As a signifier of a civilisation’s ethical and spiritual heritage, it is unsurpassed. What makes it so unique is that it is ‘alive’ in many senses of the word.