Abhinav Agarwal

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The Mahabharata, Vol. 8 Translated by Bibek Debroy [Unabridged English translation of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute'...

These are selected quotes from the Apad Dharma Parva of the Mahabharata. The quotes are taken from Vol.8 of Bibek Debroy's unabridge...

I ndia's second-largest IT company, Infosys, put out a press release on the 2nd of May, 2017 ( link ), that it would be hiring ...

I n my review of " The Illustrated Mahabharata ", I wrote that this is a magnificent coffee-table book that fills a need for ...

E ven with the scores of books that have been written on the Mahabharata - translations like Dr. Bibek Debroy's , abridgments like Jo...

  "Rama and Ayodhya" and "The Battle for Rama", by Meenakshi Jain Circumstantial Evidence Preceded Archaeological ...

O n the 27th of June, 2016, Amazon launched the first of its first AWS (Amazon Web Services) data centers in India, in Mumbai. Amazon ...

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T he Grant Trunk Road - possibly the oldest surviving highway in the world - starts out in what is now Bangladesh, makes its way through...

W hat is the etymology of the word “alcohol”? According to Wikipedia , “ the word alcohol appears in English as a term for a very fine...

I n her 2013 book, " Rama and Ayodhya ", Meenakshi Jain had presented perhaps the most accessible, authoritative, and comprehen...

Tunnel of Varanavat: Mahabharat Reimagined by Gautam Chikermane   W hen Duryodhana attempted to poison and drown Bheem during their chi...

T he contrast could not have been more striking, or poignant. 2017 began on a sombre note for Flipkart, when it announced on the 9th of J...

Movie poster of Dangal [image credit: Disney] N ow that it is becoming clear that Aamir Khan's latest movie, " Dangal "...

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 ...