Mahabharat – Smoke Signals

Achievement unlocked

Oof. I’d seen truncated versions of Peter Brook’s Mahabharata, but never managed to catch the whole thing. Done. Here,…

[Episode 71] [Archives] They stood on top of a cliff and looked down at an ocean turned dark…

[Episode 70] [Archives] A chance meeting with two wandering rishis gave me the first news we had of…

[Episode 69] [Archives] The coronation was a very subdued affair – it would, Yudhishtira warned us, be in bad…

[Episode 68] [Archives] The throne Dhritarashtra had formally vacated loomed ahead of us as we sat discussing arrangements…

[Episode 67] [Archives] I stood beside my brothers, in water that came up to our chest. Ganga’s embrace…

[Episode 66] [Archives] Duryodhana leapt high. I bent at the knee, going low in a counter. In a…

[Episode 65] [Archives] “They saw three men standing by the lake, talking,” Visokan told us with the air…

Following on from an earlier post about media response to former colleague Chindu Sreedharan’s Bhim-centric narrative on Twitter,…

[Episode 64] [PDF Archive] Sounds of unbridled revelry came to me as I lay in my bed late…