What is not here is nowhere else

The Mahabharata
Chaturvedi Badrinath
Published by Orient Longman

This book is a scholarly treatise on the subject of Indian philosophy and is also written by one of its foremost and most well-known proponents. Chaturvedi Badrinath shows that the Mahabharata is the most systematic inquiry into the human condition. Its principal concern is the relationship of the self with the self and with the other. This book not only proves the universality of the themes explored in the Mahabharata, but also how this great epic provides us with a method to understand the human condition itself.

Excerpts from a blog run by ‘Scholars without Borders’, who teach and study at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.