Economist Bibek Debroy has literally taken on a task of epic proportions in his new avatar as a translator of the Mahabharata, with the first of nine English volumes hitting the bookstores. The book ...

How far can an economist keep numbers away from literature? If Bibek Debroy’s translation of the Mahabharata is any indication, not at all and footnotes become more than mere references. Apart from ...

Dwapar Katha (published by HarperCollins India) is a successful simplification of the humongous epic that is the Mahabharata. Recounting the world’s longest epic poses the challenge of simplifying ...

Besides his prodigious public service record as an economist, the late Bibek Debroy (25 January 1955 – 1 November 2024) contributed very greatly to reviving the soul of India, which resides in her ...

There is, however, a huge queue of aspirants lined up on the way to the summit. To say something new and interesting about this mammoth epic, which has undergone so many translations and ...

Over the past few years, there has been a seemingly never-ending cloudburst of novels based on the Mahabharata. There is a series on the epic as seen from Duryodhana’s point of view, we have the tale ...

Kolkata: Fifty-five years after his teacher Professor P Lal commenced an English transcreation sloka by sloka of the full ‘Mahabharata’, his student, retired IAS officer and city scholar Pradip ...