Unelected Historian, Answerable to Only Box Office: How Bollywood is erasing cultural memory and parampara of Bharat

When “Mangal Rang”, a song from the forthcoming Ramayana: Part 1, was released in October, many listeners heard in it the cadence of a qawwali, though it has not been formally described as one. Whatever the verdict when the film reaches theatres on November 5, the disquiet it stirred is about something far older than a single song. It is about who keeps a nation’s memory. Every civilisation has its custodians. For centuries, Bharat entrusted that task to the kathavachak in the temple courtyard,

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