Once reserved for the warrior caste, the ‘prestige’ associated with the act of Sati led to its proliferation. Until the ...

“Women were educated in the Sangam era. In the Purananuru, 15 women poets have sung 57 verses. Seven of these have also composed verses in the Agananuru,” shares Sarala Rajagopalan, Tamil ...

While it is true that sati gave rise to lurid, often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was ...