Dr Bulbul Tiwari, a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University, has taken on the onerous task of creating an online, digital, audio-visual encyclopedia of the Mahabharata. On May......
Puppets have an ability to tell great stories, which is why French artiste Massimo Schuster has chosen to use them to narrate the Mahabharata. "The Mahabharata belongs to all humanity. Everyone......
It took several e-mails, but the students of Ved Vyasa School finally got their man, in this case President A P J Abdul Kalam."It is really a dream come true for the handful of students of our......
Five stories of rape and sexual assault from the epics are particularly useful in offering an insight into the way rape works in India, says Nilanjana S Roy In times of trouble, turning to the......
The first article published by rediff on Brahmins as an underprivileged community, brought a flurry of reactions, mostly of surprise: "What, Brahmins as toilet cleaners, coolies, rickshaw pullers,......