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Madhavi Menon

Madhavi Menon

A professor of English at Ashoka University, she writes on desire and queer theory. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film; and Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism.

By Madhavi Menon

Yoga is not as Hindu as it is believed to be. There's Muslim influence in it, too

[Book extract] The dissemination of the Yoga Sutra in India was helped greatly by al-Biruni’s Arabic translation in the 11th century.

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