'Abar Mahabharata' launched in Bengali

Minister-academician Shashi Tharoor's "The Great Indian Novel," was relaunched for the Bengali reader, as "Abar Mahabharat" at the Kolkata BookFair.
"We are proud to be associated wih Mr Tharoor's work , this is a Bengali readaptation of his 'The Great Indian Novel," Tridib Chattopadhyay, Secretary of fair organizers Publishers and Book Sellers Guild and owner of Patrabharati publications said.
Writer Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay said, "Would love to read in Bengali how he recasts the story of the Mahabharata in the context of the Indian Independence Movement and the first three decades post-independence."
Fashion designer Agnimitra Paul and director Shekhar Das said as a wonderful satirical novel with historial figures readapted into our mythology, and punning to works of Rudyard Kipling and others, it would be interesting to note how the allusions were transliterated into Bengali.