Reconceptualising Gandhari: An Interview With Aditi Banerjee
“In this insightful and sensitive portrayal, Aditi Banerjee rescues Gandhari from being reduced to a mere symbol of her blindfold. She builds her up, as Ved Vyasa did, as an unconventional heroine of great strength More...
Distortions, Errors, Misrepresentations – Devdutt Pattanaik’s Mahabharata
Devdutt Pattkanaik is one of India’s bestselling authors on Hinduism today. He has a breezy, eay-to-read style, packaged for consumption by today’s urban Hindu who may have little time to delve deeper into More...
महाभारत की द्रोपदी – पश्चिमी नारीवाद की शिकार
द्रोपदी – यह शब्द सुनते ही एक अचानक दिमाग में पहली छवि उस औरत की बनती है जिसके पाँच More...
The Geographical Data in the Mahābhārata – 3
The Travel Narratives: The Emergence of Bhārata as a Union Travel Narratives connects one place with another revealing the travel networks crisscrossing Bhāratavarsha. This shows how different parts of Bhāratavarsha More...
The Geographical Data in the Mahābhārata – 2
Geographical data beyond Jaya in the Mahābhārata When we analyze the geographical data in the whole of Mahābhārata beyond the Jaya portion, we will be able to find out the data distribution in each book (Parva) More...
The Geographical Data in the Mahābhārata – 1
Mahābhārata begins with this introductory verse with the following meaning: – Having bowed down to Narayana and Nara, the best among men, and also to the goddess Saraswati, must the word Jaya be uttered. More...
Indology and the Crisis in the Humanities
Together with their first book, The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (2014), Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism presents a comprehensive indictment of the dominant tendency More...
Can Veda-Shakha-Pravachana Rescue Bharata Itihasa?
Bharata Itihasa Violated Greek Invader Alexander finds no mention in chronicles of Bharata or Iran, neither are any physical evidences like his coins, epigraphs or seals found. Still Europeans chose his excursion More...
Who is disrobing Draupadi?
The first edition of Bharat Shakti Pondy Litfest 2018, Puducherry was a special one because it was the first of its kind of festival bringing together some great minds of India and abroad discussing our rich heritage More...
Mahabharata & Modern Scholarship: An Interview With Dr. Vishwa Adluri
Mahabharata is one of the foundational texts of Indian civilization. Along with Ramayana, it has transformed high abstract philosophies of the Upanishads into an aesthetically appealing literary work which has touched More...