Lalit Kumar

The ancient anti-war epic has mesmerized millions, from Alexander the Great to modern day playwrights and authors

How one of the world’s oldest poems rose from the ashes.

From The Gilgamesh to Gulliver’s Travels, from the Mahabharata to Six acres and a Third, they all speak to us eloquently even today.

In these brilliant essays, the polysemic Jagannath cult is discussed threadbare: its great influence through the region and multilayered devotional praxis, its modern forms and diasporic echoes