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How Peter Brook's 'Mahabharata' helped us to shake off colonial ways of looking at epics

July 06, 2022 5:36 am

He freed productions from the constraints of space and time, made room for reflections on gender and ecology

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‘Peter Brook tried to destroy, recreate us. I wasn’t willing to be destroyed’

July 28, 2022 2:34 pm

In 2016, I went to Mumbai to see Battlefield, Peter’s new production on Mahabharata. My friend, Toshi Tsuchitori, who had been the music director on the Mahabharata was in Battlefield. I disliked the play and thought it was dull and a rehash of what Peter had done before.

GN Devy’s latest book, The Mahabharata, yields the kind of confident scholarship about Indian thought that is becoming increasingly rare

April 23, 2022 7:14 pm

It gives the reader perspective and insight, novelty in the familiar and unpacks the complexity of the epic.

A lesson from the Mahabharata

February 17, 2022 11:02 am

G. N. Devy writes: As the hijab issue roils the nation, it would do to remember how Krishna stood by Draupadi at a time when, as now, dharma was under siege and anarchy loomed.

Punjab CM announces centre for research on three Hindu epics, says will do PhD on Mahabharata

November 28, 2021 8:32 pm

Channi, while addressing a gathering on Sunday, said that the new research centre will showcase the message of the three Hindu epics, which have been a source of life and inspiration for humanity.

'I use humour because I’m angry, frustrated about so many things around us': Trisha Das

July 15, 2021 11:15 am

The author spoke with indianexpress.com spotlighting her new book, the reason for using humour, and why she keeps going back to mythology

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Mahabharat actor Anoop Singh Thakur shares mantra after losing 15kg in six months

July 09, 2021 8:18 pm

Sharing before and after images, the 32-year-old actor mentioned how he decided to take his "physique to the next level"

Pune Campus Briefs, May 17: Online course on Mahabharata, plant breeding and talk to a scientist

May 17, 2021 9:50 am

The course, '18 Parvans of Mahabharata : Introduction to the Incredible Epic', is scheduled to begin on July 1 and enquiries for the same are open and registration will commence on June 10.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham launches online certificate programme on Mahabharata

February 26, 2021 3:56 pm

The duration of the programme is 30 hours, 6 hours per week. Interested candidates can apply through amrita.edu

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Why are historians and scholars of art worried about a Persian translation of the Mahabharata?

October 27, 2020 6:20 pm

The original Razmnama commissioned by Emperor Akbar in the 16th century has been inaccessible for over three decades and its preservation quotient is in question

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Book 'Kalam ki cocktail' unveiled

January 10, 2016 3:44 pm

New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): Journalist and writer Sharda Shukla on Sunday unveiled her first book, 'Kalam Ki Cocktail' at Constitutional Club in the national capital.The author said the book is a compilation of a wide range of articles, from poetry to informative write-ups, on epic like Mahabharata. She said the book could be used as an encyclopaedia by readers.