Column | Fire, fidelity and an inhuman heritage
Once reserved for the warrior caste, the ‘prestige’ associated with the act of Sati led to its proliferation. Until the ...
How Gandhi was changed by two events a century ago
March of 1925, two occurrences shaped Gandhi’s evolution — the Hindu-Muslim rift in Kohat and the grotesque manifestation of ...
To keep children away from alcohol, milk & sugarcane juice was served during ‘Shimaga’
The deliberate changes in social and religious attitudes and customs advocated by the reformers tried to safeguard cultural ...
The Print on MSN8hOpinion
Holi wasn’t always about Holika burning. Medieval India called it festival of Kama
The ‘eastern’ tradition of Holika-burning moved deeper into the Gangetic Plains. Gaudiya Vaishnavism, from Bengal, took root ...
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Insulting Ravan, Bollywood Style
Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Ravan is a favourite of Bollywood film-makers. He is depicted variously. We have ...
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Aurangzeb, Chhava Movie, and the politics of selective historiography
By Ram Puniyani As Communal hate is on the rise through the use of History on political battle grounds, new dimensions are ...
A new book examines the violent legacy of the Criminal Tribes Act on Tamil Nadu’s Maravar community
Consequently, well into the early 20th century, agrarian relations in the Tamil countryside continued to be marked by ...
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Hindutva push for ‘Jhatka’ meat is a Brahminical & anti-Muslim agenda
The Maharashtra BJP government recently launched a web portal to issue certificates to vendors from the Hindu Khatik caste ...