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Ramayana

An Epic Regained

Nandini Nair

Mewar Ramayana, the finest surviving illustrated manuscript

Magic Realism

Arshia Sattar’s retelling of the Ramayana is a rare triumph

Superheroes in a Karmic Battle

What the nameless soldier tells us about the morality as well as sociology of wars past and present

The Mahabharata Moment

An epic meditation on being and everythingness

The epic riddle of dating Ramayana, Mahabharata

The dating of the Ramayana and Mahabharata is a project that attracts intense debate as passionate pursuers apply new techniques to look for answers

An Epic Obsession

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

The Shape of Intolerance

AK Ramanujan’s essay—Three Hundred Ramayanas, recently removed from Delhi University’s syllabus—must be read, not argued over

Three Hundred Ramayanas

The essay Delhi University deemed unfit for its students

All-new Templates

As Indian graphic novels evolve, they are taking some unfamiliar, unIndian turns, if still to tell familiar stories

Changing Epic Traditions

The Ramayan holds interest for India’s contemporary generation a million years since its first oral telling.

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