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On #WorldBookDay, I add three more books by authors (I included) who see the #Mahabarata as a canvas on which to paint their own pictures.
[Last year's 10-book thread below...]
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[Last year's 10-book thread below...]
1/n https://twitter.com/gchikermane/status/1120742139044843520
After Kurukshetra, by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Anjum Katyal.
Just 54 pages long but the poignancy of these three short stories etch them into our souls forever.
#WorldBookDay #Mahabharata
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Just 54 pages long but the poignancy of these three short stories etch them into our souls forever.
#WorldBookDay #Mahabharata
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The #Mahabharata, by N.V. Thadani.
True, this great text is as much an itihas as it is a symbol.
And if you want to study the symbolism, read this intense intellectual study.
#WorldBookDay
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True, this great text is as much an itihas as it is a symbol.
And if you want to study the symbolism, read this intense intellectual study.
#WorldBookDay
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Finally, a self-plug: Tunnel of Varanavat -- my retelling of the Palace of Lak incident.
#WorldBookDay #Mahabharata
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#WorldBookDay #Mahabharata
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