Dhurandhar’s Hamza, played by Ranveer Singh, is, at different stages, Karna, Arjuna, Hamlet, Michael Corleone, Achilles, Orestes, Odysseus, and Heracles, yet reducible to none of them.
On 25 November 1995, EMS Namboodiripad delivered a speech in New Delhi as part of a talk on 'Books and Man.' He spoke about how he changed from a Gandhian to a Nehruvian to a communist.
The court order seeking the rounding up of this companion of humans over millennia is a sad story of our times, where our civilisational values have been obscured.
In 'The Cave of Echoes', Wendy Doniger shows how the stories of mythology—whether of gods, sages, demons or humans—enable cultures to define themselves.
The ASI claims Theh Polar village could be the site of a settlement destroyed in the battle between Pandavas and Kauravas. Villagers fled Pakistan during Partition and settled here.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
Economist Bibek Debroy passed away Friday at the age of 69. In this 2016 Walk The Talk interview, he spoke of challenges of governance and the need to do away with redundant laws.
I have often felt that success for a Dalit person comes with a strange moral demand: be proof without being inconvenient. That is an impossible assignment.
The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz eases supply fears, but controlled shipping, slow output recovery, and high costs may delay oil flow normalisation for months.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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