'Mahabharat- Different Versions -Perspectives' - Page 73

Originally posted by: KrisUdayasankar

The answer is simple. The only person who is responsible for any situation is the one who has chosen to do nothing about it. The only people responsible for the rise of a tyrant are those who choose to submit and suffer. The only people responsible for evil are those who choose not to fight it. That the gwala you once knew rose to be prince was nothing but an instrument, a means to an end. It was the people of Surasena who raised him to that position, because they decided that enough was enough. And I don't know about you, but I think Aryavarta has reached that point. Enough.'

'Because a man sworn as Emperor to protect these lands wagered them away? Because a good woman was humilated and hurt in the most terrifying of ways?'

I couldn't agree more here with what you said Ma'am..Those who prefer to stay silent & let Adharm & Injustice take place, without even trying to suppress it, are as much Wrong Doers as those who do the Bad Deeds themselves!!

Eagerly awaiting your Next Release from the ACs.."Kurukshetra"..it'll be interesting to know how you've treated the character of Suyodhan in the book & the events of the War..

Originally posted by: KrisUdayasankar

Actually, there is one guy who pisses me off a little more than Dharma Yudhisthir does. I know I'm being provocative here, but just curious how many of us have a bone to pick with Bhisma Devavrata - Kashi, Gandhara - all his conquests in the name of finding wives for his brother/nephews sowed some pretty bitter seeds, no? Or is the wife-finding merely an excuse for what probably were political conquests/annexations - after all these were pretty prosperous nations, and the did put up a fight...

Your thoughts, folks?

Originally posted by: AnuMP

Abhijiat Basu, sir, I have read Yagyaseni. The book reads very lyrical, if that makes any sense.

Chandrika

The book sounds like po*n to me from that description. Wonder why the Academy chose to honor it, in spite of it? I really dont like portrayals of Drau which paint her in such a light and make her out to be the cause of war. They indulge in victim-bashing and almost always lack an explanation for Krishna's actions. Seems like intellectual dishonesty to me, since Krishna had as much, if not more, of a hand in Kurukshetra. And I cant help but connect it to all the victim bashing that goes on in India even now after recent events

Nevertheless, I am not in favor of banning books. Seems to me everyone is entitled to their own opinion, despicable though it may be.

Originally posted by: abhijitbasu

Hello Sir. I haven't read 'Yajnaseni', but i have decided to get the book ordered & read through it. A few of our members here who read it, did put up a briefing on it some time back though.

However, i have read 'Draupadi - The Fire Born Princess' by Nagpal Saraswati and i found it pretty interesting.

Originally posted by: AnuMP

Abhijiat Basu, sir, I have read Yagyaseni. The book reads very lyrical, if that makes any sense.

Chandrika

The book sounds like po*n to me from that description. Wonder why the Academy chose to honor it, in spite of it? I really dont like portrayals of Drau which paint her in such a light and make her out to be the cause of war. They indulge in victim-bashing and almost always lack an explanation for Krishna's actions. Seems like intellectual dishonesty to me, since Krishna had as much, if not more, of a hand in Kurukshetra. And I cant help but connect it to all the victim bashing that goes on in India even now after recent events

Nevertheless, I am not in favor of banning books. Seems to me everyone is entitled to their own opinion, despicable though it may be.

Originally posted by: luv_sakshi

It must be interesting, because the uniqueness of Draupadi contributes largely to the uniqueness of the Mb. It boggles imagination to think that such a woman was there (and there must have been a real proto-historic person at the root of such an exceptionally endowed epic character), in those primeval times when Kshatriya machismo and Brahminical orthodoxy ruled the roost. Venerated as one of the pancakanyaa, she in fact overshadows even the illustrious Sita in the sheer richness of the many nuances that adorn her unique persona: a magnetically attractive woman with what in today's parlance can only be called the 'oomph factor'; an exemplary wife and homemaker; a lady with the rare courage to stand alone and face a whole patriarchal court; a profoundly cultured and articulate person, who engages Krshna and Yudhishthira in philosophic discourses and whose 'laments' are as good as any in the genre of classic laments; and a woman of incinerating wrath, whose all-consuming hunger for vengeance destroys a whole generation of Kshatriyas. But she is also the saddest of all tragedy queens the world's classics have known -- the woman whose thirst for revenge ultimately reduces herself to an inconsolable mother, grieving the gory nocturnal murder of all her five sons. What a lady indeed!