mahabharata
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‘The quest for the ultimate ‘Mahabharata’ is madness. It is not there’: Translator Wendy Doniger
Avik Chanda
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Brahma is fed up with humans and wants them gone. But Hemanga the swan has a plan to save mankind
Anand Neelakantan
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‘My intention is to be as authentic as possible to what Veda Vyasa said’: Translator Bibek Debroy
Avik Chanda
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A study of the Mahabharata: When Arjuna’s punishment turned into an adventure of love, friendship
Nikhil Govind
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A task force races against time to solve mysteries from the Mahabharata to save humans in this novel
Christopher C Doyle
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Written from Draupadi’s perspective, this novel is an alternative retelling of the ‘Mahabharata’
Koral Dasgupta
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How the Mahabharata rules the national imagination through a mix of fact and fantasy
Urmi Chanda
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The Mahabharata exists in many versions and translations. But how many people actually read it?
GN Devy
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The Mahabharata may not be authentic history, but it exemplifies the ancient tradition of itihasa
Kanad Sinha
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How a diversity of ethical paths, rather than a singular dharma, runs through The Mahabharata
Upinder Singh
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This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it
Ira Mukhoty
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Why have we lost the spirit of questioning handed down by the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics?
Shashi Deshpande
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How Arjuna from ‘Mahabharata’ and Rustam from Iran’s ‘Shahnamah’ are strikingly similar
Alireza Sedighi
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Draupadi and Kunti are living in modern-day India. The Pandavas arrive to ‘protect’ them
Trisha Das
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Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’
Hemang
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The lesser known Mahabharata: How Gandhari’s curse decimated Krishna’s clan
Uday Shankar
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When did Bhishma die? A reading of the Mahabharata reveals a startling possibility
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
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This Kurukshetra war novel explores conflicted loyalties and erotic jealousies of complex characters
Keerthik Sasidharan
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What it meant to write and publish books on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana during the pandemic
Arshia Sattar
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What Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Madhavi’ tells us about female agency (or the lack of it) in the Mahabharata
Pratiti