Economist Bibek Debroy has literally taken on a task of epic proportions in his new avatar as a translator of the Mahabharata, with the first of nine English volumes hitting the bookstores. The book ...

Peter Brook’s Battlefield springs forth from the last scenes of the Mahabharata, when Yudhisthira of the Pandava clan, having won the apocalyptic war against his Kaurava cousins, tastes defeat in the ...

Pradip Bhattacharya, a retired IAS officer and student of Professor P Lal, has completed the English transcreation of the 'Mahabharata' by translating the 'Anushasana Parva'. This is the only English ...

Dwapar Katha (published by HarperCollins India) is a successful simplification of the humongous epic that is the Mahabharata. Recounting the world’s longest epic poses the challenge of simplifying ...

The Mahabharata is often seen as a battlefield of warriors, strategy, dharma, and destiny, but beneath the surface lies a far ...

“It’s layered, it has emotion, it has scale. Everything you find in the world, you will find in Mahabharata,” Khan said. He added that the story has been important to him for many years and that he’s ...

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 traditional view is that the events in the Ramayana happened earlier than the events in the Mahabharata. Hindu texts divide each age into four yugas—Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali, in that order.