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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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Book review: Bhima Lone Warrior by MT Vasudevan Nair

This is more a brief take than review. With Bhima: Lone Warrior, Kerala’s own MTV gives us the Kurukshetra war and the events leading up to it, from the perspective of Kunti’s second son. The picture that emerges very convincingly debunks the hefty, bumbling giant of popular legend and imagination. Here you have an intelligent man who…

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