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 …
Every generation of Indian storytellers has writers who are inexorably drawn to some of its most ancient stories. “Obviously, neither writers nor publishers worry about readers not knowing any of the characters.” Ira Mukhoty’s first novel follows in this tradition that Deshpande characterises as the “zeitgeist” of our times in literature. But this assertion is beginning to ring false—from Irawati …
