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Book review: Adi Parva by Amruta Patil

This is more a brief take than review. Amruta Patil`s marvellous-marvellous-marvellous ADI PARVA is a book I go back to oftentimes. The thought-provoking text and astonishing artwork in this retelling of the Mahabharata meld so seamlessly, so mellifluously, the reader is richly rewarded over and over again. Here, Indra`s ruby-embellished Indrajaal;     Ganga entering…

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Book review: Ms Draupadi Kuru After the Pandavas by Trisha Das

  Back to the future It is many centuries, indeed many epochs, after the Kurukshetra war. The Pandavas are in heaven, along with their mother Kunti, their wife Draupadi and their aunt Gandhari, as well as the warrior princess Amba. Life is expectedly a halcyon bubble, filled with milk and honey, apsaras , music and dancing. For…

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