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Category Gita - The Divine ṡāstrá of Bhārata ( India ), a portion of Mahābhārata, through which Bhagavan Krishna spiritually directs Arjuna, representative of humanity on the battlefield, by sitting on the chariot, on the various ...

FEB 11 - In the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, a special role is granted to wise men who counsel the king in times of difficulties. Vasishtha graced the court of Dasarath, as did Dronacharya and Kripacharya of ...

d Indian academic, who has retold the ancient Sanskrit epic 'Mahabharata' in a series of tweets, is now preparing for a sequel to the Twitter version, this time from the perspective of its key villain Duryodhana. Chindu Sreedharan, a former war ...

By Lawrence Liang Writing about the Mahabharata, the poet A.K. Ramanujan claimed that no Indian ever reads it for the first time: we encounter it through countless stories heard and overheard much before we actually encounter it as a ...

of the old city of Hyderabad is a hoary institute of Islamic learning whose prized possessions include a Persian translation of the Mahabharata and rare Islamic manuscripts. Located at Shibli Gunj, some three kilometres west of historic Charminar, the ...

By Devdutt Pattanaik The Mahabharata tells us the story of a princess who lived in the country of Gandhara located in the region we now call Afghanistan. We don't know her name. We only know her as Gandhari, princess of Gandhara. She is told that ...

nomist Bibek Debroy's ninth volume of the translation of The Mahabharata is exceedingly well, with full justice to the magnitude of the multifarious epic, says ANUBHAV PRADHAN The Mahabharata Author : Bibek Debroy Publisher : Penguin, ...

India's first Twitte­r fictio­n recrea­ted by academ­ic Chindu Sreedh­aran to make the epic palata­ble to Britis­h collea­gues Sreedharan's Twitter version is told from the point of view of Bhima, the strongest of the five Pandava ...

VS Dubey, former chief secretary of Bihar and Jharkhand, suggested 950BC as the most probable time of Mahabharata war. He gave the rationale for