Draupadi

Essays

The Personal Pathology of Karna

The Personal Pathology of Karna

Karna's early training under Rishi Parashurama should have ideally helped him shape his destiny for the better. Yet his personal pathology made him choose to support Duryodhana, the personification of evil.

Jayadratha's Yudhishtiran Forgiveness Leads to Mohandas Gandhi's Blackmail of the Nehruvian Government

Jayadratha's Yudhishtiran Forgiveness Leads to Mohandas Gandhi's Blackmail of the Nehruvian Government

Concluding part of the series on how the Kanika Niti episode in the Mahabharata has valuable lessons for contemporary Indian politics and policy