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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicMahabharata

Topic: Mahabharata

Arshia Sattar takes Hindu mythology beyond an Amar Chitra Katha-type narrative

Her wonderful writing and Ishan Trivedi’s colourful illustrations make ‘Garuda & the Serpents’ come alive for children as well as adults.

Evil in the Mahabharata deserves a book. This one is not it

US-based professor Meena Arora Nayak’s take on the epic seems to push an agenda. Readers ought to rather read the original text.

UP deputy CM’s claim that Sita was a test tube baby fails our accuracy test 100%

No evidence of Sanjay’s ‘live telecast’ of the battle of Kurukshetra; nor was there any technology for test tube babies during the time of Ramayana.

Tripura CM’s claim that internet existed during Mahabharata failed our accuracy test 100%

There is zero evidence of Sanjaya sitting in a CCTV control room of sorts, narrating the war live to the blind Dhritarashtra.

Being liberal doesn’t mean being Leftist, says author Amish Tripathi

The author of the bestselling Shiva Trilogy said that Indian scriptures are far more liberal than we think, but society has forgotten what they stood for.

Both Rahul Gandhi & Narendra Modi subscribe to a western, Christian reading of Mahabharata

The villain in Hindu narratives is not evil but is just someone frightened and clinging to wealth, power and throne.

Rahul Gandhi’s no Pandava. A dynast who flees the battlefield, he’s more like Duryodhana

Had the Congress party president actually read the Mahabharata and dispassionately examined his own record, he would have come to the opposite conclusion.

The BJP wants to rewrite history so that its politics can be all about ideology

In a desperate rush to make factual history out of our grandmother's stories, these culture warriors denigrate something more powerful – power of imagination.

To attack critics Modi used Shalya, Mahabharata’s master of psychological warfare

Searches for ‘Shalya’ in Google shot up dramatically after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on critics of his government's handling of the economy

On Camera

How the Bagram airbase from the 1950s is geopolitically significant in the 21st century

Days after Trump lay claim to the Bagram base, Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan “firmly opposed the reestablishment of military bases in and around Afghanistan by the countries responsible for the current situation”.

NITI Aayog flags gender pay gap in services sector, women earn half of what men make in rural areas

Federal think tank report says gap persists across most sub-sectors, shaped by occupational segregation, limited access to high-paying positions, and skill mismatch.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.