Advani: People must read Mahabharata, Ramayana

A week after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj urged the Centre to declare Gita as “national scripture”, senior BJP leader L K Advani advised people to read Mahabharata and Ramayana, saying these epics are a great source of knowledge on politics and moral teaching.

The 87-year-old leader said his grandmother would ask him to read Mahabharata in parts and not entirely, as there is a myth that keeping the epic at home was jinxed.

“I believe no other epic than Mahabharata is a great source of pedagogy, great source of information on politics as well as moral teachings, unity and courage,” he said at an event to mark the 100th birth anniversary of journalist and chief of Urdu newspaper Daily Pratap, K Narendra.