What are you reading now? (Photo: Sonam Kapoor/Instagram) The lockdown has provided readers with the luxury of time. Many are either going back to their favourite books or using the time to discover new...
For many centuries, in India, and around the globe, men dominated the literary space. From the scriptures to epics, stories, to folklore. Not only did the male authors focus on the stories of great, righteous...
Soon after her marriage to Shiva, Daksha organized a massive yagna to which he invited all his sons-in-law, the devas and powerful sages. According to Bhagavat Purana, Marichi and the other saptrishis...
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A colorful imaginative re-telling supposedly based on factful research, The Secret Diary of Kasturba builds on what it meant to be Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mahatma Gandhi. At its best, its an interesting book, that tries to present Mahatma Gandhi in a different...
The story of India’s most celebrated Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib retold by Gulzar, one of the most famous Urdu poets of the modern era, this book outlines the life and times of Mirza Ghalib. A figure that remains the subject of much intrigue and romanticism even after...
Jagjit Singh, the ghazal king of India, was a singer, composer, arranger, lyricist, all rolled into one. Besides which he was a brother, friend, husband, and above all a father. I was in my second year of college when suddenly the tv in the activity room declared...
Behold, I Make All Things New: How Judaism, Christianity and Islam affirm the dignity of queer identities and sexualities
Devdutt Pattanaik
