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Mandsaur
Reclaiming Sanatana Spaces: A Profound Lesson from the Mandsaur Silk-Weavers Guild
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
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This is the story of a silk-weavers guild from Mandsaur who restored a magnificent Surya Mandir in 473 CE
An Introduction to Mankhas, the Extinct Sanatana Artists: Or How Nehruvian India Squandered Away its Cultural Suzerainty
An Introduction to Mankhas, the Extinct Sanatana Artists: Or How Nehruvian India Squandered Away its Cultural Suzerainty
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
5 min read
Mankhas or Picture Showmen were practitioners of narrative pictorial storytelling. From very ancient times, it evolved into a separate art form and captured the imagination of countless generations an ...
Illustration of VS Agarwala and a Boatman
Sri Vasudeva Sharan Agarwala and Sri A.S. Altekar: Lodestars of Indian History Research
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
6 min read
Vasudeva Sharan Agarwala and A.S. Altekar were exemplary scholars of Indian history who brought a vast range of scholarship and field experience to their work
Sita Devi in the Forest
Sita-Parityaga – A Profound Analysis
By
Arjun Bharadwaj
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Arjun Bharadwaj provides a rather profound and objective analysis of the much-debated episode of Sita Devi's abandonment by Sri Rama

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