Rohini Bakshi

Indic Academy is organising a course at IGNCA, New Delhi later this month which challenges existing beliefs.

'In India, we don't care about history, because we have too much of it.'

A SOAS Sanskrit Reading Room offering, rich with information and a sense of history and gravity.

Meghadūta is the earliest work that has survived to our times, but the idea of a love messenger is quite ancient.

While I was in awe of @iksusara's scholarship, I will remember him more for his outlook, his attitude and his intellectual generosity.

I am being taught to recite and chant by a pandit who is only interested in my commitment.

Since the early Vedic time, things seem to have got progressively worse for girls.

Avadhāni can compose poetry, while solving a mathematical puzzle, answering riddles and playing chess – all simultaneously.

It's nice to romanticise svayaṃvara, but it is just as important to view it critically.

Importantly, it is not about the tune, but the meter.