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

Keerthik Sasidharan

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

Bibek Debroy (1955-2024): The Polymath

Siddharth Singh

Bibek Debroy was a contributor to Open

The Praxis of Evil

Dipankar Gupta

Waging war and singing peace

God’s Many Songs

Mani Rao

Reading the Bhagavad Gita as a text of dissent

The Memory of Krishna

Bibek Debroy

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

Mythologising a Movement

Swapan Dasgupta

Naxalism that left behind a trail of blood and devastation

Cosmopolitan Scrolls

Noor Anand Chawla

The Bengal canvas of the human and the divine

Peter Brook (1925-2022): The Epic Storyteller

Kaveree Bamzai

The man who staged the Mahabharata for the world

Shuvaprasanna: Making the Epics Fabulous

Shaikh Ayaz

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

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Mahabharat

Ashwatthama Is Dead: On the Theatre of Lies in Wartime

The Kumbh Quest

Bibek Debroy (1955-2024): The Polymath

The Praxis of Evil

God’s Many Songs

The Memory of Krishna

Mythologising a Movement

Cosmopolitan Scrolls

Peter Brook (1925-2022): The Epic Storyteller

Shuvaprasanna: Making the Epics Fabulous

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