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manuscripts

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Antara Raghavan

How languages and cultures in Asia transcend boundaries with the written word

BN Goswamy: Human & Divine

BN Goswamy’s new book is a survey of a 19th century manuscript, a unique testimony to the miniature style of painting from south of the Deccan

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

The medieval glory of Timbuktu in golden letters

Enlightenment in the Gobi Desert

Amidst the India-China standoff elsewhere, art unites the two countries on the Silk Road. Nanditha Krishna looks at the Grottoes of a Thousand Buddhas to realise how civilisation is a unifying force even in the time of adversity

An Epic Regained

Mewar Ramayana, the finest surviving illustrated manuscript

Behind Every Great Book

David Ebershoff is the editor of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books this year. He speaks of his obsession with the manuscripts he works on

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