Comments on: On what the Mahabharata Really Says

By: VM

VM — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:45:12 +0000

I don’t think the Mahabharata meant anything. Vyasa may have had a message in his mind when he created it, but that is no more important than to a reader today than the ancients’ dresscode.

A story, at its very basic, is something that the reader creates. No matter how powerful a message, it won’t ever reach everyone in the same form.

I would think a story belongs to anyone who reads it, to interpret it as he/she will. I am not saying that that gives license to people to read (what might appear) wrong meanings into it. Merely that such interpretation is inevitable.

Before you loose arrows at me, please note that my comment started with a “I don’t…”

This is just my opinion. Nice blog. Subscribed.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:53:09 +0000

Could you offer some comments on the Mahabharata as covered here:

http://godprinciple.com/war1.aspx

By: A

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:24:28 +0000

Did you see Dr. Arun Shourie’s latest 4 part article on Indian Express? Here it is http://www.indianexpress.com/arunshourie

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:45:33 +0000

EPW is the Economic and Political Weekly.

http://www.epw.org.in/epw/user/userindex.jsp

It’s an Indian policy journal and, while I think it’s left-leaning, it is considered THE platform for an elevated intellectual discussion.

I have to be fair and say I have seeb free-market and non-psuedo-secular articles in it, though it is anyone’s guess how effective they are in convincing EPW’s standard audience.

By: Kishkindhaa

Kishkindhaa — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:25:11 +0000

apparently, the founder of EPW, Krishna Raj, was the one who coined “Hindu rate of growth” as a deflection for the failed nehruvian economic policies.

By: Kishkindhaa

Kishkindhaa — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:51:47 +0000

The EPW that she mentions has been showing up in many controversies of late. Anyone have any info on it? Is it allied with one western agent (ep)wijnants.

By: Dosabandit

Dosabandit — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:16:31 +0000

I wonder if those how criticize epics like the Ramayana or the Mahabharata really read them at all. How else can you explain their gross misunderstanding of these. Or if they do, do they do so with an intent to try & understand them. If you read them with a prejudiced mind, it isn’t going to help much.