mythology

A Passage to Unfreedom

Girish Shahane

Censorship in liberal democracies has shifted from policing the entire terrain of representation to policing boundaries

Diplomatically Hindu

Shashi Tharoor

A provocative thesis questions the Western fundamentals of diplomacy and argues for an Indian way of engaging the world

The New Family Picture

Jai Arjun Singh

Mainstream Hindi cinema is slowly moving from a mythical gear to a more novelistic one where the families portrayed are less adarsh and more authentic

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