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“..., the essays in “Retelling Time” are ... widely representative in that they examine the question of time in multiple languages and dialects viz. Sanskrit, Persian, Pali, Prakrit (Ardha-magadhi), Awadhi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali, and relate to an equally wide range of traditions viz. Hindu, Jaina, Buddhist and Sufi Islam to logic, yoga, tantra, theatre, and poetics.” Here, a Krishnanaattam and Kutiyattam performance in Chennai on December 1, 2019.

Book Excerpt: 'Retelling Time: Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia'

An excerpt from the introduction (“Temporality and Its Discontents Or Why Time Needs to be Retold”) of the book 'Retelling Time: Alternative Temporali
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Book Review: Irwin Allan Sealy's 'Asoca: A Sutra' portrays Emperor Ashoka as a doubting Buddhist

The writer paints a portrait of Emperor Ashoka as a man who first questions and even resists the creed he eventually embraces.
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Two Asian superpowers

The book brings out with admirable clarity all that India and China may have held in common, and much more so their historic and cultural differences.
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Who was Lal Ded?

The Introduction from ‘Looking Within’: Life Lessons from Lal Ded, edited by Shonaleeka Kaul (Aleph Book Company, 2019).
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Title: A Rasa Leader. Author: Sheldon Pollock Publlisher: Columbia University Press release.

Relevance of rasa

A creative exploration of the wellsprings and implications of aesthetics.
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The Jaina way of dying

The two volumes are about the unique Jaina tradition that sanctions self-killing for spiritual ends.
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Theory unlimited

The book is a cogent summation of the most influential modern theories that have grappled with and tried to explain the dynamics of unequal societies
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Chennai: 28/11/2016: The Hindu: Front Line: Book Review Column: Title: Writing Self Wroting Empire. Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo Persian State Secretary. Author: Rajeev Kinra. Publication: Primus Books Publications release.

The ‘outsider’ secretary

A glimpse into the cultural world of a Hindu munshi in the Mughal court.
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Ancient text, new lives

A lucid work that deals with an immensely complex subject such as the contemporary oral performance of the 1,200-year-old Bhagavatapurana.
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Lessons on a Sanskrit literary style

The strength of this volume does not lie so much in showing changes in the practice of kavya in the ancient and medieval period as in representing cha
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Pilgrims’ India

The book contends that there is a third dimension beyond the textual and political to both the idea and reality of India.
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The imagined past

A reassessment of Asoka the Great and his significance in historical memory.
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