The high-level panel has also recommended the introduction of other highly revered books like the Vedas and textbooks related to Ayurveda. The suggestions are part of the final position paper on ...

It has been written in the epic from time to time that Mahabharat is a "itihas" which exclusively means "thus occured". The words "Puraan" and "Itihas" were specifically coined by the ancient people ...

History, said motor magnate Henry Ford, is bunk, thereby consigning history to the dustbin of, well, history. But if Ford dismissed history as a has-been, NCERT is proposing to treat the study of the ...

For their next movie venture, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and his actor-wife Pallavi Joshi have zeroed in on the critically-acclaimed Kannada novel, "Parva", by S L Bhyrappa. The 1979 Kannada book is a ...

Since the different interpretations of the past are shaped by the social and intellectual background of the compilers of the traditions, the choice of the materials and their interpretations differ.

Dharma, when violated, destroys; dharma, when protected, protects. The Mahabharata is not just a war story. It is a long, ...

The Malayalam critic looks at the epic as a palimpsest of writers and narratives, built up tier by tier over centuries, and thus becoming a veritable history of Indian society and culture Updated - ...

The first is the Vidura Jataka. Here we have the story of a yaksha who wants to capture the king’s minister, Vidura While some see Mahabharata as history, others see Mahabharata as an epic born of a ...