Abhinav Agarwal

D iwali (or Deepavali) is a time for celebration. Diwali is a time for celebrating the return of Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana back to Ayod...

महाभारत की इस कथा का सूत्र हरिवंश में पाया जाता है । इस लेख में तीन पात्र हैं, हालांकि उन तीन पात्रों में से दो व्यक्ति हैं और एक शहर है । ...

W hat makes a book? What makes an author? And, what makes a bestseller? The obvious answer, if one is a journalist in India, would be - th...

T his one comes from the Harivamsha. There are three mini-tales here. Two of them have to do with people, while the third has to do with a...

T he Harivamsha is the final, final part of the Mahabharata. Not quite a part of itihaasa - which the Mahabharata and Ramayana are - nor ...

Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse, by Meenakshi Jain ( Amazon India , Amazon ) I n many ways...

D eepavali (Diwali) 2016 is over. It is time therefore to post the photos. And here they are.

I f history is to be written to make it accessible to the lay reader, the student, and make it interesting, Sanjeev Sanyal is one autho...

T here are travels that begin on a note that tell you to prepare for the worst. Of course, as a rational person you do not believe in omen...

T he second meeting Karna had was with Kunti. Kunti, the mother who had abandoned her first-born son and Karna, the son who could not bring...

Kunti abandoning Karna (image credit: http://www.dollsofindia.com/) I will stay with Karna for this post also (the previous post was a...

T he myth of Dalit-Islam unity has been doing the rounds for a few decades now, despite a copious amount of evidence to the contrary and...

It is not without reason that the character of Karna has attracted so much fascination and attention from readers of the Mahabharata. Peopl...

Sometime between 2013 and 2015 a considerable stretch of NH7 got six-laned - from Hosur to Krishnagiri. This is also one of the busiest str...

image credit: WDnet Agency, pexels.com In 2015 I had written a series of articles on the e-commerce battle between Flipkart and Amazo...

Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy , by Emily Bazelon The Name of ...

Rama and Ayodhya, by Meenakshi Jain Aryan Books International; 2013 edition (ISBN: 8173054517, 978-8173054518) Rama and Ayodhya , by...

As the week drew to a close, a story that broke headlines in the world of Indian e-commerce was the departure of Flipkart’s Chief Produ...

His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud is a member of the Saudi royal family. Per Wikipedia , he is a " nep...

The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World  - this New Yorker piece in the January, 2016 issue of the magazine, by someone named Laris...