The Eternal Panchatantra
The Panchatantra, a collection of ancient Indian fables on statecraft, continues to live through time & space.
Shrenik Rao, a Fellow at University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and founder of 7MB, revived and relaunched the 231-year-old news brand Madras Courier digitally on October 12, 2016. He lectured at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Chicago, London School of Economics, SOAS – the University of London, University of Westminster, interviewed heads of states and made documentaries that were broadcast in 54 countries. His most recent project was for History Channel.
The Panchatantra, a collection of ancient Indian fables on statecraft, continues to live through time & space.
The archaic practice of marrying within the family, a curse on society, needs to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
Consumed by all – regardless of race, religion, culture, class & gender – rice is a unifying force, a universal language.
The global pandemic, unleashed by China & the WHO’s criminal negligence, has killed over 37000 & infected over 700,000.
The India Gandhi envisioned is fading into the oblivion, only to be replaced by the Hindutva majoritarianism.
Student protests across the country indicate that the Modi-Shah government is quickly losing the ground beneath its feet.
Within six years, Modi and Shah have managed to do what India’s worst enemies couldn’t – set India at war with itself.
Does @ mean Amen, or does it mean “monkeys tail”? How and when did @ evolve? Is it a symbol of the digital era?
A British Military officer’s postcards show what Secunderabad looked like in the early 1900s. It’s a highway to nostalgia.
Loose Talk Costs Lives, a campaign warning of the dangers of rumour-mongering, is more relevant than ever.
Kiki Smith’s art, with its surreal realism, transforms a casual spectator into a prying voyeur.
Symbolism is an essential ingredient in realpolitik; it transforms political hustlers into everlasting legends.
Humans have cultivated & commoditised onions for millennia, made it into an instrument of economic and political power.
The Mughal Emperor Akbar’s ‘niece,’ was abducted & taken to Mexico, where she was venerated as a Catholic saint.
In “New India,” with regressive ideas regurgitated from the past, caste violence hangs like the sword of Damocles.