As with his other monumental work, Bibek Debroy’s last published volume, Sacred Songs – the Mahabharata’s Many Gitas, devoted to the 24 gitas in the epic apart from the Bhagavad Gita, uses the English ...

Economics specialist Bibek Debroy, who has translated the Mahabharata and the Ramayana into English from the Sanskrit, was in conversation with writer Avik Chanda at the CANTO Poetry Festival 2023, an ...

In The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose by Anonymous, readers are introduced to the epic Indian tale of power struggles, family feuds, and moral dilemmas. The book ...

Last week I saw the first part of Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata at the National Arts Centre, an epic play based on an ancient Sanskrit story. Part 1 - The Life We Inherit introduced us to the many ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his delight over his experience at the International Gita Mahotsav in Kurukshetra five ...

Borderlands e-journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: RELIGION AND SEXUALITY (2010), pp. 1-17 (17 pages) This paper is in the nature of a thought experiment that seeks to understand how sovereignty ...

CAN an epic poem, composed more than 2,000 years ago and transcribed in an ancient language that only a handful of people can read, thrive in the age of Twitter? In India, yes. And not just one epic ...

For their next movie venture, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and his actor-wife Pallavi Joshi have zeroed in on the critically-acclaimed Kannada novel, "Parva", by S L Bhyrappa. The 1979 Kannada book is a ...

Though it played to full houses, Jaya had a short journey of about 40 shows. Dubey believed it never had a full run. Ever since she has been looking for an opportunity to resurrect the mammoth ...

Nearly 35 years after its original debut at the Venice Film Festival, Peter Brook‘s epic film adaptation of “The Mahabharata” is returning to the Lido in a meticulously restored 8K version. The ...