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Arshia Sattar

ARTICLES BY ARSHIA SATTAR

Detail of a panel depicting the game of dice (Courtesy Penguin Random House India)

A graphic novel based on the Mahabharata for your reading list

5 min read . 23 Jun 2022

Bas relief sculptures on Vaman Temple, in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India (iStockphoto)

A new book paints a picture of ancient India's pluralities

5 min read . 27 Nov 2021

The Meenakshi temple in Madurai. (Photograph by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash)

The champion Hinduism doesn’t need

5 min read . 17 Sept 2021

Khandoba with Mhalsa, a Company-style painting from Tiruchirappalli. (Wikimedia Commons)

Revisiting magical horses and myths of Hindu-Muslim unity

6 min read . 20 Aug 2021

A Buddhist representation of emperor Ashoka on elephant, first century BCE, Sanchi. (Getty Images)

Rediscovering Ashoka the Great, the outsider king

3 min read . 08 Aug 2021

Audrey Truschke insists that we cannot read either the attitudes or the identity politics of the present into the past. (Mint)

What ancient Hindu texts tell us about Muslims

5 min read . 22 Jan 2021

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

Girish Karnad and the women who defied norms

5 min read . 10 Jun 2020

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

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