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Mahabharata

Essays

Agni Mattu Male: The Sound and the Fury of Perversion

Agni Mattu Male: The Sound and the Fury of Perversion

By the time Girish Karnad wrote Agni Mattu Male (The Fire and The Rain) in the early 1990s, he had already pocketed the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Padmashri, the Padmabhushan, and the Karnataka Sahitya Parishad Award…all of which he had amassed on the wreckage of Indian culture and

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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Karnad Caricatures Yayati in the Black Hole of Existentialism

Karnad Caricatures Yayati in the Black Hole of Existentialism

Yayati is Girish Karnad’s first play, written in Kannada when he was twenty-three years old. It is also his seminal work of cultural vandalism, his first attempt at massacring everything that the Indian tradition and culture holds sacred, sublime, elevating, and valuable. Published in 1961, the instant success

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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Hindu Ethics of War: A Gentle Introduction

Hindu Ethics of War: A Gentle Introduction

A layman's introduction to the Hindu ethics of war

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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