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[contextly_sidebar id=”FvrRPhh3gv3PgGkSF2QXh7qyFEu1TLha”] महाभारत की इस कथा का सूत्र हरिवंश में पाया जाता है । इस More...
Insights From the Mahabharata- IV: Jarasandha, Kalayavana, Vishwakarma, and Krishna!
[contextly_sidebar id=”siEcPvG9jtVi1SutaHNKNyYcXdjXv2M9″] This one comes from the Harivamsha. There are three mini-tales here. Two of them have to do with people, while the third has to do with a city. More...
Book Review: Harivamsha, translated by Dr. Bibek Debroy
The Harivamsha is the final, final part of the Mahabharata. Not quite a part of itihaasa – which the Mahabharata and Ramayana are – nor quite a Purana, the Harivamsha nonetheless gets by being called More...
Book Review: Sati by Meenakshi Jain
Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain (Amazon India, Amazon) In many ways this book documents the birth of atrocity literature and its first application More...
Book Review: The Ocean of Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal
If history is to be written to make it accessible to the lay reader, the student, and make it interesting, Sanjeev Sanyal is one author I would pick. I say “one”, because I would also pick Michel Danino, More...
Insights from Mahabharata-III: When Kunti met Karna
[contextly_sidebar id=”RUuId7PWMN60KiZw28S7AGIfKphwVA1f”] The second meeting Karna had was with Kunti. Kunti, the mother who had abandoned her first-born son and Karna, the son who could not bring himself More...
Insights from Mahabharata-II: Karna, Krishna, and the Fear of Abandonment
[contextly_sidebar id=”TFjoE8szvI5gUhhEwkNHh3OyzzwmX14f”] In the previous article, we saw how Karna’s like could be viewed as a cautionary tale against distractions. Let us now look into another aspect More...
First Things First – A Lesson Karna Forgot
It is not without reason that the character of Karna has attracted so much fascination and attention from readers of the Mahabharata. People have seen and identified in him an ideal friend, an ideal giver, and above More...
Book Review: ‘Rama and Ayodhya’ by Meenakshi Jain- Part I
The diffusion of propaganda requires repetition. In the words of someone many leftists have secretly admired for long, repetition is what makes propaganda successful- the full quote is (bold-emphasis mine), “The More...
Was Ford Foundation Culpable In Aborting Female Foetuses In India?
The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World – this New Yorker piece in the January 2016 issue of the magazine by someone named Larissa MacFarquhar caught my eye. It’s beyond doubt that Ford More...