FLOY QUINTOS: “The great Southeast Asian epics live again with each retelling.” Like the “Ramayana” (think “Rama Hari”), that other Indian epic “The Mahabharata” is one of the glories of world ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic. By Sopan Deb ...

During the past couple of months speakers from each of our two major national parties had described the other as the Kauravas, the evil party in the Mahabharata. The latest leading figure in love with ...

The British Library has a rich collection of Persian manuscripts, including finely illustrated and decorated manuscripts of the Iranian national epic, the Shahnamah of Ferdowsi, but also including a ...

One of the longest books in the world, the Mahabharata tells the story of a country, a culture and a family tearing itself apart. In ancient India, it was said that nothing exists which is not within ...

Aditya Iyengar’s debut novel The Thirteenth Day dealt with one of the Mahabharata’s most dramatic episodes – the death of Abhimanyu – but treated it in a deglamorised, largely unsentimental way. His ...

Aditya Iyengar, who mostly writes mythological and historical fiction, is known for his rather unusual works inspired by the Mahabharata. His debut novel 'The Thirteenth Day' deals with Abhimanyu's ...