Mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik interviews Purushottam Agarwal, a historian of literature.
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It is a sad commentary on proclaimed traditions of tolerance an individual can be lynched for an alleged social transgression.
The story of these realities must be told to build a nation based on accepting and digesting even the harshest of historical truths.
There are those who consider a lecture on ancient discipline as intolerable as a beheading.
The people who were once revered and celebrated are today vilified.
The best thing they passed on is that no knowledge is fixed and finite.
