The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the timeless classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science; and the contemporary social, ethical and political concerns. The essays are all united in their effort to situate the Mahabharatain the context of here and now without violating the sanctity of the written text as we have it today. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Indian and comparative philosophy, Indian and comparative literature, cultural studies, and history.
Foreword Peter Ronald deSouza. Acknowledgements. Introduction.Part I: Narration 1.Of Gambling: A Few Lessons from the MahbhrataSibaji Bandyopadhyay 2.Methodology of the Critical Edition of the MahbhrataSaroja Bhate3.Significance of the Early Parvans: Modes of Narration, Birth Stories and Seeds of Conflict Sibesh Bhattacharya4.Understanding Yudhi_t?hiras Actions: Recasting Karma-Yoga in a Wittgensteinian Mould Enakshi MitraPart II: Aesthetics5.Aesthetics of the Mahbhrata: Traditional Interpretations Radhavallabh Tripathi 6. Karn?a in and out of the MahbhrataNrisinha lc0
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