Mahabharat Archives:
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If this is your first visit, please have a look at my Author’s Note, as that would help you understand Mahabharat better.
What if I tell you that Draupadi never insulted Duryodhana as Andha Ka Putra Andha in the canonical Sanskrit text of Vyasa’s Mahabharata, contrary to what we see in popular depictions? To understand, let’s go back a little in time. The year is 1989. On a hot, humid Sunday morning on the 9th of July,…
The other day, I was having an online chat with a friend on the Hindu epic, Mahabharata. What began as a friendly discussion soon transformed into a heated argument, much akin to the tumultuous story of the epic itself. In the end, we decided to agree to disagree, lest our old friendship goes for a…
We have all grown up reading or hearing some version of Mahabharata. Most of the times, our exposure to the epic is limited to condensed abridged versions like Amar Chitra Katha, TV series, famous works of literature on selected incidents or characters by stalwarts like Tagore, Ramdhari Dinkar, etc. And then, there are those wondrous stories we…
There are two kinds of people that read Mahabharat. The traditionalists, who loyally stick to the standard texts and their conventional interpretations. And the skeptics who question and challenge the existing narrations, seeing the primary texts through a prism of cynicism. There are third/fourth sub-categories too, but that is a discussion for another day. Nonetheless,…