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Krishna

An Epic Finale

Arshia Sattar

Bibek Debroy concludes his Mahabharata series with a cosmic flourish

Her Mahabharata

Karthika Nair retells the epic in verse with a feminist and subaltern perspective

The River Sutra

Bringing the Godavari and the Krishna together in Andhra Pradesh marks India’s first river-linking project. Has life too changed course?

The Gita and Being Modern

Why the platitudes of our time are not an alternative to the religious vision of the Bhagavad Gita

Love, Sex Aur Maafi

In this 18th century erotic poem banned by the British, the courtesan Muddupalani gives us Radha, a feminist and sexual woman in rage over Krishna’s ‘betrayal’

Colour Me Different

The villagers of Barsana and Nandgaon, said to be the villages of Radha and Krishna, play Holi as the divine lovers would have.

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