Tag Archives: Mythology

Mahabharat or Mahabharata, the complex most epic around the world, is full of emotions, attributes and more importantly “lessons one should learn from“. Since ages, it inspired authors to not only take inspiration from the same but (urge a wish inside to) to retell it once in their lifetime. The retelling obviously has some of the differences in the plot ... Read More »

We’ve received a book named The Lost Arcanum by Navin Reuben Dawson sometime ago in exchange of honest and unbiased book review. Based on the books in the queue it took a remarkable time for its turn to come. And, the book is quite long so it took considerable time reading it. But, it was indeed a nice reading experience. ... Read More »

Mahabharata aka Mahabharat has something within it which made various creative fellows, mainly from India, curious to explore it in their own way. Mahabharat itself is a part of Jaya or JayaSamhita. It is said that Mahabharat contains everything which is found in the known (and possibly unknown too) world. Here are some of the known retellings/explorations of Mahabharat we ... Read More »

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्- ॥४-७॥ परित्राणाय- साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥ There is something so eternal and comforting in this promise that no matter how much the Adharma appears to rise in this world, there will always be Dharma to defeat it and restore balance to our world and ... Read More »

Reinterpretation of ancient myths and legends from Greco-Roman writings have inspired countless modern bestsellers across various platforms in the last few decades. For example, The Percy Jackson series of books and movies, Thor movies, adaptations telling the legend of Troy… Considering the much wider and deeper range of stories available in Indian mythology, it is hardly surprising that books belonging ... Read More »

Anuja Chandramouli’s name and fame speak for itself when you look at her profile on Amazon and through thousands of readers who have turned her mythological stories into bestsellers. We have read and reviewed some of her works on this blog ( Kartikeya: The Destroyer’s Son, Rani Padmavati – The Burning Queen & Prithviraj Chauhan: The Emperor of Hearts) and ... Read More »