Economist Bibek Debroy has literally taken on a task of epic proportions in his new avatar as a translator of the Mahabharata, with the first of nine English volumes hitting the bookstores. Economist ...

As with his other monumental work, Bibek Debroy’s last published volume, Sacred Songs – the Mahabharata’s Many Gitas, devoted to the 24 gitas in the epic apart from the Bhagavad Gita, uses the English ...

Three years after British playwright and screenwriter Peter Brook staged his French production of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata by the river Rhône at a quarry in Avignon, France, the carelessly ...

Netflix India is venturing into animated mythology with “Kurukshetra,” a new series drawing from the ancient Indian epic the “Mahabharata.” The series will focus on the climactic 18-day battle, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic. By Sopan Deb ...

Over the past few years, there has been a seemingly never-ending cloudburst of novels based on the Mahabharata. There is a series on the epic as seen from Duryodhana’s point of view, we have the tale ...

'Mahabharata', which a generation of Indians grew up seeing on Doordarshan, will be back with a contemporary look and on a global platform -- the streamer Disney+ Hotstar. The show is based on one of ...

The Mahabharata does not begin in the clouds or in imagination. It begins on land. On Kurukshetra. A place where real people stood face to face, struggled with fear, pride, love, and duty, and made ...

Toronto-based Why Not Theatre is set to bring its Canadian stage production of Mahabharata to London's Barbican Centre between 1 and 7 October. Split into two sections, the performance explores the ...

Whether The Mahabharata is central to your culture, or the only Dharma you know was married to a guy named Greg, Why Not Theatre’s often stunning new stage adaptation of the classic Indian epic is ...