The Mahabharata is one of the greatest epics of Hindu mythology, a revered text that narrates the story of the Kurukshetra war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, and the teachings of Lord Krishna.

The reason behind the absent Holika Dahan bonfire, curiously, is Shiva — the god usually credited with accepting all that is ...

The war of Mahabharata, also known as the Kurukshetra Yuddh, was fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two brother clans that were fighting for control of the Kingdom. And while the ...

In a piece loosely inspired by the Mahabharata, performers from various traditions enact a dance that feels like a collective ...

Abhimanyu, a skilled commander of the Pandavas, got trapped in the Kaurav's chakravyuh during the Mahabharata war. Deceived against the war rules, he was killed. Our lives too resemble a chakravyuh, ...

The Influence Mahabharata is one of the two major epics of ancient India and is written in Sanskrit. It consists of the epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War apart from the devotional and ...

“This is not war,” the narrator says ... s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Indian epic the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming for him. Florentina Holzinger ...

The piece is a loosely inspired, pared-down version of the story of Gandhari from the Indian epic the Mahabharata. Gandhari, a queen, loses her sons in a brutal war brought on by their outsize ...