Evil in the Mahabharata
Meena Arora Nayak
Oxford University Press
354 pages; Rs 650
Ask anyone even remotely familiar with the Mahabharata what the epic battle was all about and the answer will likely come out in a flash: Victory of good over evil. Far from it says author Meena Arora Nayak. This is a book that questions everything we believe to be good and whether good finally does win in the world. The fact is that “Mahabharata’s history is replete with problems of evil,” she writes.
The epic she says is ambiguous about morality, often crossing its
Meena Arora Nayak
Oxford University Press
354 pages; Rs 650
Ask anyone even remotely familiar with the Mahabharata what the epic battle was all about and the answer will likely come out in a flash: Victory of good over evil. Far from it says author Meena Arora Nayak. This is a book that questions everything we believe to be good and whether good finally does win in the world. The fact is that “Mahabharata’s history is replete with problems of evil,” she writes.
The epic she says is ambiguous about morality, often crossing its
