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There are two reasons. On one hand, India’s social history from ancient times has been intermingled with the Mahabharata. By exposing these conflicts, we are actually defending the text against the right wing’s efforts to essentialise it as a Brahminical text. There are two problems in that position — one, considering a text as a single ideological representation; two, turning a blind eye towards a text’s multilayered life. What attracted me was that it’s a text that opens into the great conflicts of human life.

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