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Arshia Sattar

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ARTICLES BY ARSHIA SATTAR

A still from Girish Karnad’s 1984 film ‘Utsav’.

Girish Karnad and the women who defied norms

5 min read . 10 Jun 2020

Ramanujan was a deeply private man. ©Estate of AK Ramanujan

A.K. Ramanujan’s travels in mind and body

5 min read . 17 May 2019

An illustration of a story from the ‘Kathasaritsagara’. Photo courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art

Diving into a sea of stories, myths and folk tales

5 min read . 07 Dec 2018

Jodha Bai , the royal figure who is conspicuous by her absence from Ira Mukhoty’s book. Photo: Alamy

Ira Mukhoty’s history of women in the Mughal royalty shines light on an obscure past

4 min read . 17 Aug 2018

One of India’s most respected public intellectuals, Romila Thapar (below) has always been interested in how our ideas of the past inflect the present. Photo: HT

Who owns the nation state?

6 min read . 07 Apr 2018

The love issue 2018: The unbearable heaviness of love

8 min read . 09 Feb 2018

An illustration from the Ramayan, commissioned by Maharana Jagat Singh of Mewar, Rajasthan, in the 17th century, depicts Kaikeyi demanding that Dasharatha send Rama into exile. Photo: © The British Library Board, Add. 15296(1), f.24r

Love and ageing in the classics

7 min read . 20 Feb 2016

Daruwalla’s main characters are all Parsis. Photo: Arko Datta/Reuters

Book Review: Ancestral Affairs by Keki N. Daruwalla

3 min read . 09 Jan 2016

Girish Karnad at his residence in Bengaluru. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Girish Karnad: The Modernist

7 min read . 14 Aug 2015

Surendran’s novel is based on the 1994 Isro spy scandal. Photo: iStock

Book Review: Hadal by C.P. Surendran

4 min read . 12 Jun 2015

The Murty library will go well beyond Sanskrit to texts of the subcontinent in general as well as to texts that fall outside the so-called classical period.

Trickle of the classics

4 min read . 24 Jan 2015

A still from Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel ‘A Clockwork Orange’.

Book Review | Here Are The Young Men

1 min read . 10 Jan 2015

A Durga idol awaiting finishing touches at Kumartuli, West Bengal. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Book Review | 7 Secrets Of The Goddess

3 min read . 18 Nov 2014

Historian Romila Thapar. Photograph by Valmik Thapar; courtesy Aleph Book Company

Book Review | The Past As Present

5 min read . 19 Apr 2014

Wendy Doniger in Varanasi. Photo courtesy: Wendy Doniger

Essay | Bullies in the state

4 min read . 15 Feb 2014

A close reading of the ancient texts reveals patterns that are repeated in the stories. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Book Review | On Hinduism

4 min read . 13 Feb 2014

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