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Sacred name sparks courtroom drama: What CBFC argued in affidavit opposing Janaki vs State of Kerala

Censor board later changed its stance, said it was ready to greenlight film for release if title is changed to ‘Janaki V’ and the name is muting in one scene, to which makers agreed.

Assamese Ramayana portrays Sita as a fierce, defiant woman who chooses dignity over kingdom

The book, Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Ramayana, by Tilottoma Misra, has verses from Madhava Kandali’s Saptakanda Ramayana and Srimanta Sankaradeva’s Uttara Kanda Ramayana.

Trinamool MP ‘compares Lord Ram’s devotees to rapists’, angry BJP says police not filing FIR

BJP accuses MP Kalyan Banerjee of hurting religious sentiments, alleges police has refused to register their complaint. Trinamool says BJP giving comment 'communal spin'.

In the call for Ram’s Mandir, the birth of Sita continues to be a mystery

Ram’s birth is elaborately described in Valmiki’s Ramayana, but Sita’s is summed up in a couple of verses.

Our daughters will see Sita as a single mother and Draupadi as a #Metoo warrior

A new generation of women writers are retelling the stories of women in history and mythology.

We respect Sita and hate Draupadi for all the wrong reasons

People don't often take into account that Draupadi didn't want five husbands; she was forced into this arrangement by Kunti's declaration.

Not much wrong in ‘test-tube Sita’ remark. It can be India’s Renaissance moment

If Florentine Renaissance shaped the next 500 years of world history, there is no reason why we should not lay claim to our destiny and derive inspiration from our past to shape the next 500 years.

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Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.