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BN Goswamy (1933-2023): Sage and Sensitivity

Ranjit Hoskote

Art historian BN Goswamy combined an empirical precision with a soaring imagination

Tripping in Alliance Hall

MJ Akbar

And what Oppenheimer really said

Decoding the Vedas

Lakshmi Bayi

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

Ocean of Stories

Arshia Sattar

The magical realism of a Sanskrit classic retold

Sanskrit with a Persian Accent

Audrey Truschke

It’s a language of the Muslim pasts too

Rahul Sankrityayan: Our Kind of Seeker

Keerthik Sasidharan

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

Saving Sanskrit

Nikita Doval

Only serious scholarship can redeem the classical language

The Parable of a Mughal Prince

Supriya Gandhi

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

Swami Nithyananda: Godman’s Own Country

Lhendup G Bhutia

A guru on the run buys a home

Can India and China take an epic journey to the future?

Stephen Owen and Sheldon Pollock

Sorting out Babel

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Sanskrit

BN Goswamy (1933-2023): Sage and Sensitivity

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Sanskrit with a Persian Accent

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The Parable of a Mughal Prince

Swami Nithyananda: Godman’s Own Country

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