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We often come across the narrative that Karna, who was adopted by a Suta family, faced discrimination all his life because of being a Suta. This s...

Vidura, the wise and intelligent step brother of Dhritarashtra and Pandu, was born to a Sudra woman, princess Ambika’s maid. Ambika was so terrifi...

The Pandavas proceeded to the forests as per the conditions imposed in the dice game. Accompanying them were their priest, Dhaumya and many other B...

The rebirth of Mahabhisha and the Vasus as Shantanu and his eight sons. King Mahabhisha belonged to the famed Ikshvaku dynasty. His good deeds were...

Vidura was sent to invite Yudhishtira. Vidura advised against gambling but Yudhishtira decided that as per the Kshatriya dharma, he had no option b...

The brave king Shantanu, who was grieving after the departure of his beloved Ganga, came across the fisherwoman Satyavati one day while hunting. H...

Maya, the asura who was pardoned by Arjuna was the architect of the demons. He wanted to help Arjuna and Krishna asked him to build a grand palace ...

Fittingly, our first post is about Krishna Dwaipayana, also known as Veda Vyasa, the author of the Mahabharatha. While we all know that Vyasa wrote...

The war of Mahabharat was fought between the sons of Dhritarashtra and the sons of Pandu, when the eldest son of Dhritarashtra, Duryodhan refused ...

Drupada, after being defeated by Drona had performed a yajna (sacrifice) to get a powerful son to avenge his humiliation. From the fire emerged a...

What led to Mahabharat? Was it the love for power? Or the craze for revenge? Or plain jealousy? Or injustice had to be put to an end!? Whatever the...

Just short of 2 million words and about ten times the size of Illiad and Odyssey put together- such is our Mahabharatha. This great epic is so volu...