Abhinav Agarwal

Aryaa is a collection of ten stories from ancient India

April 3, 2023

Aryaa is a collection of ten stories from Vedic and post-Vedic literature that brings to life the stories of ten women, each unique, each strong, each of whose story is an adventure in itself, and who shaped in small, and big, ways ancient India. Eight of the women featured figure...

A Purana That Stays Close to its Definition

October 10, 2022

W hy was Drupada, father-in-law of the Pandavas and Draupadi’s father, called a Panchala? One of Puru’s descendants was Haryashva, who had five sons – Mudgala, Srinjaya, Brihadishu, Yavinara, and Kampilya. So confident was Haryashva in his five sons’ valour that he declared that these five alone were capable of...

A sharp look at the ISRO spy case Abhinav

July 1, 2022

In 1994, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist S. Nambi Narayanan and others were accused of conspiring to sell to Pakistan cryogenic engine technology. For close to three decades, the matter rolled around in the corridors of the judiciary, till 2018, when the Supreme Court ruled that Narayanan’s arrest had...