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Fascinated; A Kathakakli dancer enacts a scene from the Mahabharata.   | Photo Credit: Getty images/ IStock This retelling of the Mahabharata is realistic unto distastefulness, chiefly because of the author’s intoxication with the source material Suppose you are regarded as a venerable fount of wisdom. What kind of disciple would you want for yourself? Obviously, one who is completely faithful to your sentiments, who conveys your thoughts exactly as expressed, who invariably upholds your authority. So it may seem, at first blush. But is this really so? I think you would soon find yourself wishing that this earnest disciple of yours was not quite so earnest. That he did not keep insisting on your every saying. Perhaps you would even start yearning for some obscurity, so that your wisdom may have some wiggle room, and the reputation that hangs on it may not always be weighing upon you. Unless, of course, you were invincibly convinced of your own perfection.

India generalKeerthik sasidharanDharma forestKurukshetra warCritical perspectiveAstronomical violenceAncient classicsஇந்தியா ஜநரல்தர்மம் காடுகுருக்ஷேத்ரா போர்திர up பதிமுக்கியமான முன்னோக்குவானியல் வன்முறைபண்டைய கிளாசிக்