As with his other monumental work, Bibek Debroy’s last published volume, Sacred Songs – the Mahabharata’s Many Gitas, devoted ...

Janamejaya is the great grandson of Pandavas in the Mahabharata and he performed the famous yajna or sacrifice to destroy all the snakes on the earth. Janamejaya was the son of King Parikshit, who was ...

One of the most important Indian epics, Mahabharata features two feuding brothers - The Kauravas, and the Pandavas, and their war that led to destruction, loss of life, but also the establishment ...

There is also an interesting episode involving Yudhisthira and a Mongoose mentioned in the Mahabharata: After the Rajasuya Yajna ... The mongoose said, “O Great King Yudhisthira, there was a poor ...

In Japan, killing oneself by using a sword to tear one’s own bowel, following which another person chops the head off is ...

The speech included everything from alleging that Kollywood had denied her opportunities because she’s Brahmin, to denying historic caste oppression and even baseless accusations of “Brahmin ...

This included substituting terms in adapted quotes from Adolf Hitler, replacing “Jew” with “Brahmin,” to measure responses. The Equality Labs-trained participants were significantly more ...