Mahabharata
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Born in Blood: a relook at the final act of Parv
A second look at the final act of S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Parva, the retelling of the Mahabharata. The author reads its closing scenes as a study of war’s futility,…
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A civilization born in blood : a relook at the final act of Parva
Revisiting S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Parva, Nachiketa reads its final act as a study of the futility of war, from Bhima finding the Hidimba forest burned to the Yadava fratricide,…
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Happy Rama Navami!
Razib Khan marks Rama Navami with a joke that he has read only two-thirds of an English Mahabharata and knows nothing of Rama beyond his presumed Y haplogroup.
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Parva: An epic masterpiece
Nachiketa calls Parva the best retelling of the Mahabharata he has read: a slow build of first-person arcs towards the great war that he found unputdownable, with notable attention to…
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Pocket Review: The Dharma Forest
A pocket review of Keerthik Sasidharan’s The Dharma Forest, first of a planned trilogy retelling the Mahabharata through nine characters. The reviewer admires its philosophical depth and modern-readable psychology, while…
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Browncast: Keerthik Sasidharan, author of The Dharma Forest
In this BrownCast episode the host talks to Keerthik Sasidharan, author and columnist, whose debut book The Dharma Forest came out in India in December 2020, about the book, the…
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Why Hindu-Americans Don’t Stand Up For Hindus
The author asks Hindu-American friends why they speak up for other minorities but not Hindus, finds many unaware of the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and argues their…
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Yugant / युगान्त : Book Review/Recommendation
Nachiketa recommends Irawati Karve’s Yugant, a critical, rational reading of the Mahabharata that weighs its characters’ motivations, from the Pandavas’ marriage to Draupadi to Krishna’s character, with literary respect but…
