Millions, who may not agree with Ram’s ideals, engage with his story, which calls upon them to confront their own behaviour
More and more people believe that we have not been told the truth. Or rather, that what we have been told is not true enough.
This is not just Bhagavata Purana—the fount of our Krishna love—made easy. Pattanaik provides contexts, comparisons and dates in lucid scholarship.
<em>Mrcchakatikam</em>, with its political satire, wit and delicious turns of plot and characterisation, is a great Sanskrit play. A new translation is to be welcomed.
Pattanaik takes each verse of the Hanuman Chalisa, unpacks it, then brilliantly links it to other stories and ideas across the vast sea of Hinduism
Srinivas Reddy’s translation serves Kalidasa’s masterpiece of pining love well. A lyrical effort seeks out the slow rhythms of the mandakranta metre.
Did classical Indian literature focus more on the absentee lover than on the joys of union, probes Arshia Sattar
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