A fascinating illustrated rendition of the all-consuming Mahabharata … A spectacular show of words and images dealing with love and death, loyalty and duplicity, conflict and concord, and much more …
Impelled by elemental forces of death, destruction and creation, Panchali, with electrifying visuals cinematically construed, reaches its climax: two consecutive games of dice. Marred by deceit, treachery and trickery, and fuelled by obsession, passion and rage, the gambling episode provides the preface to the coming, all-consuming Mahabharata war.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Feb/2022
ISBN: 9780143427810
Length : 244 Pages
MRP : ₹799.00
Pather Panchali, is rich in rural turns of speech, local vocabulary, and references to the agrarian life of southern riverine Bengal. In translating Pather Panchali, the translator Rimi has thus focused on preserving as much of this ‘music and suggestiveness’ of the original text as possible, to offer readers as authentic an experience as […]
