Mahabharata  

India is a land of a myriad temples. Every temple is steeped in history and has a story to narrate. 

As we continue to write on our temples, let’s travel to Chitradurga in Karnataka. The Hidimbeshwara temple here has connections with the Mahabharata. 

The following pictures have been borrowed from a Twitter user Harsha with the handle @harshasherni

The FIR was registered in Rajkot based on a complaint filed by former Army personnel Jaidev Rajnikant Joshi, who claimed that Prashant Bhushan had hurt religious sentiments of the Hindus 
 

It’s nostalgia as the TV series Ramayana and Mahabharata are being rerun on national television in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Deepika Padukone would be seen playing the role of Draupadi from Mahabharata in Bollywood's most ambitious projects.

In all our shastras, importance was given to values. Historiography itself was value-based and not based on names, dates and wawr, say DK Hema and DK Hari, founders of Bharat Gyan, an NGO 

Abhinav Khare deep dives into how historians like Romila Thapar write and propagate a definite ideology and this is what gets manifested in our curriculum!

Union home minister Amit Shah was addressing a gathering in Assam wherein he stated that Northeast India has always been closer to the heart of the nation since the time of Mahabharata. He drew reference to Ghatotkach and Arjun from the Mahabharata. 
 

Actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth was slammed by the Congress in Tamil Nadu for praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah. Rajinikanth had compared PM Modi and Amit Shah to Lord Krishna and Arjuna after the abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. 

Kamal Haasan has done it again. Recently, in an election rally, the actor turned politician said, "I am not saying this because many Muslims are here. I'm saying this in front of Gandhi's statue. The first terrorist post-India's independence is a Hindu. His name is Nathuram Godse." But this is not the first time that the actor has courted controversy.

Communist party leader Sitaram Yechury said that Hindus can be violent and the epics Ramayana and the Mahabharata are proof of it. Reacting to it, senior BJP leader KS Eshwarappa said the epics are shaped civilisations across the world and he needs to apologise for  it.