Indian Epics Blog

"You can give up Art Girl or you can give up your life"  (source) The sun had just set, and Alex was moving silently through the maze of stucco desert houses. His objective: Invade Samu Al-Hayeed's compound and rescue his wife, the beautiful and talented Art Girl. Alex paused as he heard the nearby shuffling of footsteps. Despite his best efforts to move stealthily, there was no way he could cover his tracks through the sand and gravel. He'd set some traps to slow down his pursuers, thin their ranks, and allow him time to think of a plan.  Alex left the house he was in and made his way through the village moving towards the town square in the center, making sure to leave behind easy-to follow tracks. Once he reached the square, he carefully retraced his steps, back to a nearby storefront. He entered the store and booby-trapped the ground floor, moving up to the second floor and taking up a sniper position looking out of the balcony. His plan, if it ...

(source) Hey everyone, NitroDubbz here again with Narayan's Mahabharata. The Pandava brothers all got married to Draupadi and now have gone off and built a prosperous city in the desert. Yudhistira then gets cleaned out in a game of dice by his cousin Sakuni, who is working with his other brothers to try and weaken the Pandava brother's empire because they are jealous and worried of their growing power and influence. However, Sakuni goes too far and Vidura, the advisor to king Dhritarashtra, warns that Sakuni is only going to anger the Pandava brothers and make their vengeance twice as bad. Dhritarashtra, initially ignoring Vidura, changes his mind when he is moved by Draupadi's prayer to Vishnu that was answered with a miracle. He grants her several boons, restoring the freedom of the Pandava brothers and their kingdom. Then the Pandava brothers get invited to another game and lose all their stuff and are banished to the wildnerness this time. Then Vidura goes and j...

(source) Hello everyone, NitroDubbz here! It's that time of the month again, more readings! This time it's the Mahabharata. I chose to read the R.K. Narayan translation, since last time I enjoyed the Narayan Ramayana so much, I thought I'd go with his version of the Mahabharata. Okay so there's a lot to take in here. There are way more characters and backstory than in the Ramayana. I'm going to be summarizing more than analyzing, but that's for my own sake so I can try to keep everything straight. It's also difficult even ignoring the foreign names, because I think we remember people by their attributes and personalities, but there's not much characterization in this story so it's very difficult to keep track of everyone. So essentially there are three princes, a blind one, a pale one, and a normal one, who all have a bunch of kids. The Pandava brothers and some other people seem to be the focus of this story. Their master, Drona, who ...