Death of Karna marks an end to a painfilled story of a spirited warrior, a tragic prisoner of his own complexes, hatred and Karma whose internal conflicts were more intense than external. Taking the right lessons of Karna’s rise and fall would be a true way of honouring his life rather than engaging in pointless sob fantasies of him being an underdog achiever which he wasn’t.
Read Part I and Part II. In the second part of the series, we saw how the numbers pointed to the possibility that Bhishma attempted to stall the war while…
Read Part I. Bhishma Parva comprises the phase of Kurukshetra war where the Kauravas fought under the leadership of Pitamaha Bhishma. His commandeering lasted for 10 days. Clearly torn between…
The epic battle of Mahabharata is an event that has been etched in the memory and imagination of Indians and Hindus since millennia. And it shall continue to do so,…
Author Sai Swaroopa Iyer shares her experience at the Weekend with Wisdom writers retreat with Indic Scholar and author Shrikant Talageri.
Mahabharata has been the Itihasa that defined a part of my identity. It has defined and continues to define my consciousness. Whenever I read the Itihasa, take any episode of…
Presenting an ancient Indian Puranic story with a contemporary narrative in the background has been a literary tradition that is unique to Hinduism. Continuing in the tradition, is Krishna Gopeshvara…
Saiswaroopa is a former analyst with a Venture capital firm and an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. She is the multifaceted author of books like “Abhaya”, “Avishi”, “Mauri” and “Creators of Telugu Epic Literature”.
