The Sacred Madhukari Tradition: How Brahmana Boys in Old Poona Educated Themselves
Like bees gathering honey from flower to flower, young Brahmacharis in Poona went from house to house collecting sanctified food to support their studies
Busting the Spurious Narrative of 300 Ramayanas
A.K. Ramanujan's infamous essay "300 Ramayanas," was a deliberate fabrication to rob Maharshi Valmiki's authorship of the Sanskrit original
How Srinatha Won the Kavisarvabhauma Title
Read the thrilling tale of how Srinatha won the epithet, Kavisarvabhauma or the Emperor of Poets
Dindima Kavi’s Defeat and Srinatha’s Magnanimity
The Art of Intellectual Combat: Srinatha vs. Dindima in the Vijayanagara Court
Mahakavi Srinatha Throws a Challenge to Arunagirinatha Kavi
Nori Narasimha Sastry fleshes out Mahakavi Srinatha's character as a feisty and talented poet who throws a deceptive poetic challenge to his counterpart, Arunagirinatha
Nori Narasimha Sastry’s Outstanding Literary Repository
Despite his busy schedule, Nori Narasimha Sastry produced an astonishing body of outstanding literature in Telugu
A Voyage into Vijayanagara: The Violation of Sanctity
For centuries, Kishkinda was a sacred Kshetra, the abode of Hanuman. Its environs birthed the great Hindu Empire of Vijayanagara. Over the last three decades, its sanctity has been almost completely erased.
Mricchakatika as an Allegory of the Emergency
Shudraka's immortal Sanskrit play, Mricchakatika, written in the 5th Century, is an uncanny allegory of Indira Gandhi's emergency
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