Abhinav Agarwal

An Intermedial Retrospective

The book, ‘Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade’, edited by Aishwarya Pandit has essays from 26 people and a Foreword by Nirmala Sitharaman, the country’s...

Hanuman Chalisa, translated by Vikram Seth: Ego gratification or a labour of love?

BENGALURU: To use the Hanuman Chalisa as a vehicle for an ideological outburst makes Seth little different from those he accuses of ‘intolerance’ and ‘chauvinism’. When...

Ashtavakra Gita: A translation and a personal perspective

BENGALURU: That a book, a poem, a discourse, whose history and tradition go back thousands of years, when transmission was through oral means, can...

Sacred songs: The many Gitas of the Mahabharata

In this book, Bibek Debroy has selected 25 Gitas, excluding the Bhagavad Gita, from the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata, given its encyclopaedic length, unsurprisingly, contains many,...

The author, the character, the person, and 100 mn copies

Heather Martin’s authorised biography of Lee Child, ‘The Reacher Guy’, is the story of James Grant the person, Lee Child the author, and Jack...

Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura: The God, the temple, the history

As to the historicity of Vasudeva Krishna, Meenakshi Jain writes that after examining the Chandogya Upanishad, the Mahabharata, and the Bhagavad Gita, historian and...

Excavating the roots of Delhi

B.B. Lal, as a young archaeologist, wanted to examine whether places mentioned in the Mahabharata had an existence that went back to the times...

Is Big Beautiful?

Perhaps the most alarming lesson one may draw from the book is how the growth of cartels and monopolies may foreshadow a coming of...

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