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Mahabharat

Ashwatthama Is Dead: On the Theatre of Lies in Wartime

V Shoba

From the moment Yudhishthira whispered a half-truth on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, the lie became a tool of war

The Kumbh Quest

The Hindu is at the forefront of politics and culture today, poised between tradition and modernity

Bibek Debroy (1955-2024): The Polymath

Bibek Debroy was a contributor to Open

The Praxis of Evil

Waging war and singing peace

God’s Many Songs

Reading the Bhagavad Gita as a text of dissent

The Memory of Krishna

The returns from the hymn of peace range from wealth to wellness

Mythologising a Movement

Naxalism that left behind a trail of blood and devastation

Cosmopolitan Scrolls

The Bengal canvas of the human and the divine

Peter Brook (1925-2022): The Epic Storyteller

The man who staged the Mahabharata for the world

Shuvaprasanna: Making the Epics Fabulous

Shuvaprasanna’s oil-and-acrylic paintings celebrate the stories of the Mahabharata

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