The Mahabharata is the biggest epic and the longest poem in the world. The five Pandava brothers —Yudhishthira, Bheem, Arjuna, Sahdev and Nakul — along with their wife, Draupadi are in exile in the Dvaitavana forest, after Yudhishthira lost his kingdom and his wife to the Kauravas in a game of dice. When I first read the Yaksha Prashna, I …
On June 21, Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance announced former Governor of Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu as its Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections scheduled for July 18, 2022. While BJP was merited to give representation to a tribal woman, Murmu was called a ‘puppet of RSS’. Droupadi Murmu, who worked towards the upliftment of the tribal community in Odisha, …
