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by Pradip Bhattacharya

Articles

  1. Desire: The Root of All Misery

  2. Karma : Electable, Immutable, Inexorable

  3. Leadership and Managing Power - Insights from Mahabharata

  4. Desire under the Kalpataru

  5. The Mahabharata As Theatre

  6. Enigmas in the Mahabharata

  7. Panchkanya - Women of Substance

    Also see
    A Report on National Seminar on Panchakanya of Indian Epics

    Also see
    A Review on National Seminar on Panchakanya of Indian Epics by
    Saroj Thakur

  8. The Date of the Mahabharata War
    An abridgement of "The Date of the Mahabharata War" published in Vol. II, January-December 1901 of the journal Indian Review by Velandai Gopala Aiyer. Abridgement by Pradip Bhattacharya.

  9. Was Draupadi ever disrobed?

Reviews

  1. Tales and Teachings of Mahabharata by Janaki Abhisheki

  2. Kampilya: Quest for a Mahabharata City

  3. Draupadi The Goddess and Bhishma's Reminiscences
    Reviews of
    Alf Hiltebeitel: The Cult of Draupadi: Mythologies from Gingee to Kurukshetra Vol.1
    and
    M.M.Thakur: Thus Spake Bhishma

  4. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics By Alf Hiltebeitel

  5. Maggi Lidchi-Grassi's trilogy based on Mahabharata

  6. Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel

  7. Peter Brook's film Mahabharata

  8. A Gap in Puranic History Bridged

  9. Purana Pravesh Dr. Girindrashekhar Basu (Translated by Pradip Bhattacharya).

  10. Summary of the book
    THE THARU BARKA NAACH: Nepal's Dangaura Tharu folk version of Mahabharata
    Ed Kurt Meyer & Pamela Deuel, translation by Dinesh Chamling Rai,
    Himal Books, Lalitpur Nepal 1998

  11. The Transmogrification of Myth
    Review of Satisaptakam: Saga of Seven Mothers by Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar [Samata Books, Madras, pp. 642, Rs. 325].

  12. Vidur's Mother, Pritha's First and Duryodhan
    Review of Three Mahabharata Verse Plays (Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1991)
    Translation by Kanak Kanti De of the three plays by Buddhadeb Bose, Sankranti [The Ending], Pratham Partha [The First Born], and Anamni Angana [Angana Unnamed]

  13. Review of Management Concepts from the Mahabharata by N.M. Khandelwal.

  14. Note on Persian translation of Mahabharata

  15. The Mahabharata in Arabic and Persian

  16. The Story's the Thing Review of P. Lal transcreation of Adi and Sabha parvas

  17. A Veritable Cornucopia Vana parva and other books on the epic by Prof. Lal

  18. The Doomsday Epic Condensed Reviews of
    The Mahabharata of Vyasa, condensed from Sanskrit and transcreated into English, by P. Lal, Writers Workshop, 2006
    Queens of Mahabharata by Kavita Sharma, Rupa.
  19. Epic Nation-reimagining the Mahabharata in the age of the empire Pamela Lothspeich

Articles by Pradip Bhattacharya in French Translation
Translated by Gilles Schaufelberger
  1. Desire Under the Kalpataru
  2. Panchkanya - Women of Substance
  3. Leadership and Managing Power - Insights from Mahabharata
  4. Agastya's Gateway
  5. The Third Dice Game (original in Bengali by Rajshekhar Basu)


Articles by Satya Chaitanya

  1. The Brides of the Bharatas

  2. Draupadi - The Last Wager

  3. Mahabharata - Odes to Red Blood and Savage Death

  4. Mahabharata - As the Curtain of Death Falls

  5. A Woman of Ayodhya, A Womb Desecrated

  6. Vyasa: Witness to Self, Witness to Life

  7. Was Draupadi Disrobed in the Dice Hall of Hastinaputra?


Articles by Sitansu S. Chakravarti

  1. The Universal Message Of The Mahabharata

  2. Bhishma and Sri Krishna - The New Value System in the Mahabharata

  3. A follow-up on the New Value System in the Mahabharata

  4. From Morality to Moksa - Freedom in the Mahabharata


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