Published by HarperCollins India, 'Ahimsa' by Devdutt Pattanaik will be released on 30 September on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
In 'Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts', Wendy Doniger explores local stories of saints who fit the non-Indian pattern such as Chaitanya, Kabir, and the Virasaivas.
Bahubali is mentioned in the religious literature of both the Svetambara and Digambara sects of Jainism, although his worship is more prominent among Digambaras.
While Indians are hoarding books on mythology, they didn't show up at Delhi's Comic Con as Ram, Ravan, Ashoka, or Chanakya. The 'cool quotient' still involves aping the West.
‘The tirade against capitalism is wholly unfounded. Capitalism as it has shaped during the past quarter of a century is a far better method of developing the economic resources of any country,’ wrote DN Hosali in 1956.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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