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Amish Tripathi speaks with Srijana Mitra Das about his new book 'Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta', the importance of knowing India and why we must understand our glorious heritage in full.
Being a Muslim-majority country has not prevented Indonesia from embracing the Ramayana fully. India should leverage the great love Asia has for this epic through creative diplomatic and strategic ways.
Even today, every woman reader can find a bit of herself in both these heroines.
Hindu Mahasabha leaders recently 'shot' an effigy of Mahatma Gandhi and celebrated his 'death'. None of their senior leaders rejected such behaviour. It is with exactly such propaganda that they wish to change the moral fabric of India.
Perhaps in 2019, we are not ready for such radical theories. Perhaps in a 100 years, we will be.
The caste of this janeu-wearing, weapon-wielding Vanar is not easy to decode. But Yogi Adityanath seems to have made an epic fail.
Many people have asked me whether Rama really existed; whether there was a Pushpak Viman (a kind of an aeroplane), guided missiles, atom bombs, etc., in ancient India? Here is my response.
On Pak Independence Day, an edited excerpt from Haroon Khalid's book 'Imagining Lahore: The City That Is, The City That Was'.
Misogynist pig is as much about being a pig as rogue elephant is about either rogue as in rascal or an elephant.
Lineage did not matter in those times. It should not now.
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