Sticking TO THE SCRIPT
Apr 09, 2022
3 minutes
—Shreevatsa Nevatia
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n our enthusiasm to appropriate the Mahabharata as a compendium of human conflict and frailty, we often forget how gods, boons and miracles catalyse the events of this epic poem. Draupadi, for instance, was never strictly born. She emerged from sacrificial fire. In , artist Sankha Banerjee beautifully illustrates her conception, showing the princess wrapped in flames, but, sadly, his collaborator, author Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, never gives her agency that’s half
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