The stories of our Dashavataars, the Puranas and the oral traditions sparkle with beautifully crafted episodes of Kama in Shringara Rasa. This illustrates the centrality of the pleasure principle to our lives.
Dr Vemsani has eschewed the usual narratives of analysing women in their traditional roles and in relation to the men in their lives for a focus on the extraordinary in their journeys; exile, forest domicile etc.
The land of the Sri Suktam, a land which visualizes Prithvi as a woman and the country, too, unified as the body of Goddess Sati, which has always given women their due is slandered, maligned & denigrated with the twin weapons of falsehood and ignorance.
Announcement of the selected candidates for Research Fellowships to study Indic Feminism from Indic Academy.
It is that time of the year again, the 8th of March, when we focus our collective lenses on the woman question. There are articles and discussions on the problems…
Sumedha Verma Ojha is an author, columnist and speaker, was born in Patna and educated in Delhi, graduating in Economics (Lady Sriram College) and post-graduating in Sociology (Delhi School of economics). After 15 years in the Indian Revenue Service she switched careers to research and write a book set in the Mauryan period based on the Arthashastra of Chanakya. ‘Urnabhih’ then expanded into a book series on the Mauryan Empire. Sumedha is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Indic Today. She works in the area of translating and explaining the epics and bringing ancient Sanskrit/Prakrit literature to the English speaking Indian as also in the area of a gendered analysis of ancient India. She lives with her husband near Geneva and has two children both studying in the US.
