Hindustan Times

Review: Sacred Songs – the Mahabharata’s Many Gitas by Bibek Debroy

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 ...
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The Mahabharata exists in many versions and translations. But how many people actually read it?

The grip that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have over the minds, memories, imaginations, and identities of Indians has no parallel in the literary history in India, or in any other literary ...
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‘My intention is to be as authentic as possible to what Veda Vyasa said’: Translator Bibek Debroy

Economics specialist Bibek Debroy, who has translated the Mahabharata and the Ramayana into English from the Sanskrit, was in conversation with writer Avik Chanda at the CANTO Poetry Festival 2023, an ...
The New York Times

A Retelling of the Mahabharata, Set to Modern-Day Struggles

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 ...
Toronto Star

Making the ‘Mahabharata’: How do you bring a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic to the stage?

For the million-plus members of the South Asian diaspora living in the Greater Toronto Area, the “Mahabharata” will be familiar. Over 4,000 years old, the Sanskrit poem is one of the great epics of ...