In this interview, Anuja Chandramouli tells us what fascinates her about the Mahabharata and why she wrote about Abhimanyu, the responsibilities of writing mytho-fictions, and more. In this interview, ...

The Mahabharata is one of the most famous and epic happenings for Hindus worldwide. The battle of Kurukshetra, the siding with Dharma, the betrayals by family, and so much more was a part of ...

How far can an economist keep numbers away from literature? If Bibek Debroy’s translation of the Mahabharata is any indication, not at all and footnotes become more than mere references. Apart from ...

The Mahabharata, one of the greatest epics ever written, is not just a story of kings, wars, and dharma, it is also a story of collaboration between two extraordinary beings: Ved Vyasa, the sage who ...

The Mahabharata war at Kurukshetra is already described as one of the most intense and destructive battles in Hindu tradition ...

There is, however, a huge queue of aspirants lined up on the way to the summit. To say something new and interesting about this mammoth epic, which has undergone so many translations and ...

The stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are set in different yugas. How come some characters appear in both? These are Puranic stories where the rules of space and time do not apply. It is a ...

No other text has survived the many historical vicissitudes of Indian civilization as the Mahabharata has done. The epic story has overshadowed all other forms of human expression, and remained a ...

At 200,000 verse lines and 1.8 million words, it took more than half a millennium to write the Mahabharata. The epic Sanskrit poem, spanning the tale of love and warfare between rival families, is ...

MAHABHARATA, an ancient Indian epic, literally means 'Great India' and propagates 'eternal truth' for humanity. Of all the epics of the world, the Mahabharata is the second oldest (next only to the ...