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The wisdom of the ancients needs to be brought into the mainstream again

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The magical realism of a Sanskrit classic retold

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It’s a language of the Muslim pasts too

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Manuscript hunter Rahul Sankrityayan was a nationalist at home in the world

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Only serious scholarship can redeem the classical language

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What the story of Dara Shukoh says about our desire for kingship

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A guru on the run buys a home

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