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    Mahabharata - 2

    SAMHITA ARNI
    Colleges/ Unis where I’ve spoken at/ lectured etc:

    Yale-NUS college (Singapore), University of


    Melbourne, School of Oriental and African
    Studies (UK), King’s College London,
    University of Kent (UK), University of Chicago
    (Study Abroad India Program)

    IIT-Kanpur, Azim Premji University, etc…

    (TV)
    http://
    outofprintmagazine.co.in/
    archive/
    march_2019_issue/noor-
    niamat-singh_the-
    semicircle-of-life.html
    Approaches

    • Literary analysis, cultural and historical


    context

    • Creative approach
    PETER BROOK’s MAHABHARATA
    (1989)

    1. “What’s your poem about?”


    Vyasa: “It’s about you. It’s about the poetical history of
    mankind.”

    BR Chopra Mahabharat series on TV


    (1988)
    Kaal: “It is the story of the rise and fall of Indian culture,
    of the battle between good and evil, light and darkness. It is the story of
    conflict in relationships.
    CHARACTERS:

    VYASA
    PARIKSHIT
    AMBA
    GANDHARI
    EKALAVYA
    KARNA, ‘the driver’s son’
    1. “What’s your poem about?”
    Vyasa: “It’s about you. It’s about the poetical history of mankind.”

    ITIHASA
    Two genres: Itihasa, Kavya
    “As it happened”
    “As it was witnessed”
    “History”
    “Once upon a time”

    Did the Mahabharata really happen? Is it history?


    Scroll article
    Confusion in the text

    Charioteer bards
    Back in the day, charioteers motivated the
    warriors they drove with stories
    Which charioteers are heroes in this story?
    Which bards are heroes/ central to the story?
    LITERARY TECHNIQUES: Frame Story
    Story within a story within a story…
    “Mahabharata” Ugrasravas/ Sauti and Saunaka
    “Bharata” Vaisamapayana and Janamejaya 100,000
    Vyasa and Ganesh verses
    Sanjaya and Dhitrashtra 200 CE
    “JAYA”/ 8000 verses
    4 Century BCE?
    Krishna
    Arjuna
    “Bhagavad Gita”
    700 verses
    200 BCE
    // with Ashoka
    What other Frame Stories
    can you think of?
    The Mahabharata, Ramayana, Panchatantra
    Vikram and the Baital

    Arabian Nights
    Decameron
    Canterbury Tales

    Heart of Darkness
    How I met your Mother
    Inception
    What does a frame story do?
    What does a frame story do?

    • disorienting

    • confusing, a labyrinth

    • multiple perspectives

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