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mahabharata

‘The quest for the ultimate ‘Mahabharata’ is madness. It is not there’: Translator Wendy Doniger

Avik Chanda
· May 07, 2023 · 08:30 am
Brahma is fed up with humans and wants them gone. But Hemanga the swan has a plan to save mankind

Anand Neelakantan
· May 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm
‘My intention is to be as authentic as possible to what Veda Vyasa said’: Translator Bibek Debroy

Avik Chanda
· Apr 01, 2023 · 09:20 am
A study of the Mahabharata: When Arjuna’s punishment turned into an adventure of love, friendship

Nikhil Govind
· Mar 17, 2023 · 11:30 am
A task force races against time to solve mysteries from the Mahabharata to save humans in this novel

Christopher C Doyle
· Nov 30, 2022 · 05:30 pm
Written from Draupadi’s perspective, this novel is an alternative retelling of the ‘Mahabharata’

Koral Dasgupta
· Sep 21, 2022 · 05:30 pm
How the Mahabharata rules the national imagination through a mix of fact and fantasy

Urmi Chanda
· Feb 26, 2022 · 08:30 am
The Mahabharata exists in many versions and translations. But how many people actually read it?

GN Devy
· Feb 11, 2022 · 08:30 am
The Mahabharata may not be authentic history, but it exemplifies the ancient tradition of itihasa

Kanad Sinha
· Jan 18, 2022 · 08:30 am
How a diversity of ethical paths, rather than a singular dharma, runs through The Mahabharata

Upinder Singh
· Oct 12, 2021 · 08:30 am
This novel asks what would have happened if the Mahabharata had been the story of the women in it

Ira Mukhoty
· Aug 02, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Why have we lost the spirit of questioning handed down by the Vedas, the Upanishads, the epics?

Shashi Deshpande
· Jul 25, 2021 · 08:30 am
How Arjuna from ‘Mahabharata’ and Rustam from Iran’s ‘Shahnamah’ are strikingly similar

Alireza Sedighi
· Jul 11, 2021 · 09:30 pm
Draupadi and Kunti are living in modern-day India. The Pandavas arrive to ‘protect’ them

Trisha Das
· Jun 25, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’

Hemang
· May 09, 2021 · 05:30 pm
The lesser known Mahabharata: How Gandhari’s curse decimated Krishna’s clan

Uday Shankar
· Apr 04, 2021 · 05:30 pm
When did Bhishma die? A reading of the Mahabharata reveals a startling possibility

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
· Jan 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm
This Kurukshetra war novel explores conflicted loyalties and erotic jealousies of complex characters

Keerthik Sasidharan
· Dec 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm
What it meant to write and publish books on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana during the pandemic

Arshia Sattar
· Nov 14, 2020 · 08:30 am
What Bhisham Sahni’s ‘Madhavi’ tells us about female agency (or the lack of it) in the Mahabharata

Pratiti
· Jan 04, 2020 · 08:30 am