In a post-war world marked by rising inequality and normalised violence, Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug appears uncannily prophetic. The play reimagines an ancient tale as a modern tragedy, where moral and political collapse leads to an “Andha Yug”—a blind age defined not by incapacity, but by a wilful refusal to confront the horrors of war.
A poem about the futility of war and growing indifference
BY Ashwani Kumar 22 March 2026
Bihar’s 2025 mandate marks more than Nitish Kumar’s record tenth term, it signals the rise of a feminist democracy, powered by unprecedented women’s participation and a civic revolution that has quietly reshaped the state’s political and developmental landscape.
BY Ashwani Kumar 15 November 2025
A poem about the haunting, lyrical tragic post-human landscape of war, when time itself confesses humanity’s recurring betrayals, but no one listens
BY Ashwani Kumar 21 June 2025
Let there be light where there is not, alas we sit where lives are lost
BY Ashwani Kumar 26 April 2025
Kinnaur and Lahaul Spiti districts have already achieved 100 percent mark in vaccination.
BY Ashwani Kumar 18 July 2021
‘Rajyaabhisek’, the coronation ceremony, of Vikramaditya Singh will be performed by the family priests in presence of mortal remains of Virbhadra Singh.
BY Ashwani Kumar 9 July 2021
The youngest among them is a 7-year-old monk who has been kept at Delek Covid care centre
BY Ashwani Kumar 26 May 2021
Alarms bells are ringing again for Himachal Pradesh
BY Ashwani Kumar 12 March 2021
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