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Good and evil, loyalty and treachery, faith and doubt, honour and ignominy-the Mahabharata has served as a primer for codes of conduct to generations of Hindus. Over time, the epic has also fascinated those who love a tale well told. In its telling, however, the story has lost much of its richness and nuance, and the characters have become one-dimensional cut-outs-either starkly good or irredeemably evil.
In this reinterpretation, Meena Arora Nayak analyses how ...
Almost three thousand years ago, a highway robber wrote one of the world's greatest epics. He is now known to us as Valmiki. In the fifth century BC, a beautiful Devadasi persuaded a king to give up his violent dreams of military conquest and become a Buddhist, thus saving thousands of lives. She was Amrapali, and he was Ajatashatru, the king of Magadh. In the thirteenth century, a time when women rarely played a role in public life, Razia, Sultan of Delhi, ...
In the enchanted land of Kashir, the only casualty was peace.On the evening of 17 December 1971, Indira Gandhi declares ceasefire against Pakistan, seemingly bringing an end to months of violence and terror along the Indo-Pak border. At just about the same time, in the Kashmir Valley-Kashir to its people-Salahudin Bhatt of Zaina Kadal, Srinagar, has another reason to celebrate: the birth of a grandson, whom he names Ali, after Islam's greatest warrior. Yet, ...