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Sahadev: I know what this is about. You're jealous of all the attention Karna is getting. Especially from Krishna.

Arjun: Please. You think I care if Krishna gives some other guy some attention? How insecure do you think I am?

Arjun: Seriously, how insecure do you think I am? I need you to tell me. Will you please tell me?

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Balram: This is not the time for your shenanigans!

Krishna: It was a single shenanigan. Technically more of a hijink.

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Since you're one of my favorite Hindu blogs, just wanted to let you know @/mrityuloknative and @/rhysaka are sharing shitload of "hindutva" posts, targeting people of academic background and just spreading those hindutva bullshit. Take care and thanks for being one of my favorite blogs <3

Oh trust me, we KNOW. I'm so familiar with all these names, in fact, I could probably make you an entire list of all the religious nationalist chucklefucks on Tumblr and sort them out into categories of Hardcore Hindutva, Softcore Hindutva, Hindutva-Lite, On The Cusp and Undercover Hindutva.

You might have missed all the drama that happened earlier this year lol.

Long story short, the Hindutva gang got mad, we got called all sorts of names and accused of being fake leftists(how these right wing lovers define what Real Leftists are, I will never know). I think they tried to cancel us in their little echo chamber? It was a Time.

Anyway, thanks for being with us through it. We appreciate you all. 💕

- Mod S

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i’ve like, watched bits and pieces of mahabharata adaptations, heard a gazillion people talk about what happens in it, and also one random netflix show where they’re judging the characters in heaven?? anyway. my thing was that i’ve never consistently watched/read it, and since it’s such a big corpus of work…. is there like a summary? a list of events? like a wiki?? it’d help a lot

I'm always hesitant to give out singular recommendations for anything, honestly, because I feel like no singular piece of work could ever properly capture every nuance and discourse. A lot of said pieces of work also have stuff that I find objectionable so I cannot endorse them without adding essays worth of caveats.

I wish I had a personalised summary for you that I could tell you to read/watch/listen to for a start. (maybe I should make one? No. That'd be insane of me. That'll take YEARS. It'd be a Project. I couldn't do that. Could I?)

If you're just starting out, maybe some of the compiled and heavily summarised versions would help. Children's book versions of the epic can be helpful to start with, they sanitise and flatten things but as a summary, they work. If you're grown up, it might feel a little odd to be reading children's books but I think they serve their purpose of being little cliffnotes version of events. Baby me had this book called Puffin's The Mahabharata by Namita Gokhale that I liked. I haven't read that book in years so I cannot give you an updated opinion on it.

Jaya by Devdutt Pattanaik also has quick summaries of events, often in bullet point formats which one could find helpful. However, Devdutt Pattanaik has a Thing™ where he's the gateway drug to Hindu supremacist nonsense so you have to watch out for that. Be So Careful, my dude. (My issue of being unable to recommend something without caveats and warnings in action, ladies, gentlemen and theyloveds.)

There's also stuff like Wikipedia, various websites with summaries etc. I would recommend checking citations on those as much as possible. You can peruse through those too.

Once you get a basic level of familiarity, you'll soon realise that everybody disagrees with everybody on events and characterization and there's millions of different versions and there's no "canon". It's chaos out here and that's the beauty of it all. Happy reading!

-Mod S

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as a diaspora kid i’m liek 90 percent sure this blog has done more good for my relationship with hinduism than any actual hinduism group in the us. thanks for that

The more I learn about Hinduism groups in the US of A, the more convinced I become that the majority of them are either just hindutva groups or hindutva-lite groups designed to induct people into the former. Are the diaspora/NRIs okay? I hope people know that they can love and practice their religion without becoming hindu supremacists.

We never intended for it to be hindu blog or anything, we just liked some literature and wanted to share some of what we love, that's all. I'm glad people find it helpful, though. 💕

- Mod S

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Can you make more krishnarjun incorrect quotes? :3 ??

I thought you guys would've been sick of them by now. But I stand corrected, I guess.

-Mod S

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It's interesting.

I've been meaning to re-watch it all the way through because I was informed of a new way of looking at it.

It's supposedly more a commentary on World War dynamics than anything else. The races of the actors are supposed to represent the countries that participated in/got dragged into the world war. For example: the Kauravas are supposed to represent the Axis powers (hence, why Drona is Japanese as G mentioned) and the Pandavas are the Allied Nations (hence, Yudhishthir being British), Draupadi is very clearly supposed to represent India and her disrobing is equated to the colonial powers taking away the wealth of the country etc.

Like I said, it's an interesting idea. However, it didn't quite communicate the grand ideas as well as I would like it to and gets trapped in stereotypes, it also sort of flattens the actual caste hierarchy of the original aspect of it all in order to make the stage global. (And there are certain characters who get implied to be subjugated and oppressed by the narrative of the play i.e. Bhishma which I disagree with but that's a personal thing.)

A lot of the praise talks about how grounded and realistic it is as compared to the BR Chopra adaptation. Which is fair because there is an extreme amount of religious reverence in the latter which I dislike. However, being grounded shouldn't mean taking away the colour from the costumes, it's very "white person making a serious story" coded.

That being said, I am still willing to give it a try and watch it again. I will report to you guys what I thought about it once I do so.

- Mod S

Ever heard of the mahabharata mini series made by (mostly) white people?

apparently it's actually good according to some viewer testimonies and reviews and my dad used to rent the dvd several times (looks kinda funny too)

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We skimmed the show. It was......idk, I don't even know what to think. There were instances where their casting of the characters was racially questionable. *cough* Ghatotgacha *cough*. Also, WHITE KRISHNA?!?! No fuckin way.

I found the East Asian Drona very funny though, very Sensei stereotype.

They did seem to capture some amount of the story as such, but the dialogues felt a little weird. IDK it was an experience.

-Mod G

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There's a new book out called Many Mahabharatas (with a preface by the editor of Many Ramayanas). I listened to an interview with the editors, and it sounds exciting. There are two sections on Sanskrit Mahabharatas, one on premodern tellings in other languages and one on modern (colonial and postcolonial) versions/debates. You might want to check it out!

I'm on it! Thank you for the reccommendation, anon!

-Mod G

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Ever heard of the mahabharata mini series made by (mostly) white people?

apparently it's actually good according to some viewer testimonies and reviews and my dad used to rent the dvd several times (looks kinda funny too)

......

We skimmed the show. It was......idk, I don't even know what to think. There were instances where their casting of the characters was racially questionable. *cough* Ghatotgacha *cough*. Also, WHITE KRISHNA?!?! No fuckin way.

I found the East Asian Drona very funny though, very Sensei stereotype.

They did seem to capture some amount of the story as such, but the dialogues felt a little weird. IDK it was an experience.

-Mod G

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AND THE WINNER IS .... STAR PLUS MAHABHARAT.

A show which neither G nor I have watched beyond a handful of episodes.

Fear not, good people! We will watch the ENTIRE THING, even if I have to drag a kicking and screaming Mod G to do it.

And bonus:

Funny number alert. I like to believe you guys did it on purpose.

- Mod S

Now that our poll is over: the winner is

Thoughts/Reviews of Mahabharat adaptations!

BUT, we need your help!

We have another poll about *Which* adaptations do we do, or do we have a single episode briefly covering few adaptations at once?

Get to voting!

-Mod G

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as a hindu your blog gives me life. i love looking at it while giggling and kicking my feet. im sorry about the other folks they just dont understand peak comedy

The notification I got only showed me the words "as a hindu" and I felt a bone deep weariness and I fully expected yet another person calling us "pseudo liberal leftist". Suffice it to say, reading this all the way through I'm so glad it wasn't what I was dreading.

Thank you, anon. We endeavour to entertain. 💕

I really don't think they're mad at the comedy right now. I SAW THEM MAKING THEIR OWN INCORRECT QUOTES STYLE POSTS. They're just mad that we don't agree with their hindutva ideology and at this point, they're making up people in their own heads to be mad at.

- Mod S

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Now that our poll is over: the winner is

Thoughts/Reviews of Mahabharat adaptations!

BUT, we need your help!

We have another poll about *Which* adaptations do we do, or do we have a single episode briefly covering few adaptations at once?

Get to voting!

-Mod G

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Now that our poll is over: the winner is

Thoughts/Reviews of Mahabharat adaptations!

BUT, we need your help!

We have another poll about *Which* adaptations do we do, or do we have a single episode briefly covering few adaptations at once?

Get to voting!

-Mod G

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This poll is for the three people that care about the podcast.

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This poll is for the three people that care about the podcast.

- Mod S

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Duryodhan: How do you just eat when there's a dead guy laying there?

Bheem: What, is that rude? Am I supposed to share?

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Do y'all plan on continuing the podcast? Just binge-listened to it and it was pretty fun!

I'm TRYING to continue. I'm literally begging. However, Mod G won't listen to me. (⁠╯⁠︵⁠╰⁠,⁠) Maybe if you guys give them enough motivation they will?

I'd do episodes on my own but I fear I'm not as fun to listen to on my lonesome.

ALSO, I'm always looking for episode ideas, so if you have any suggestions, please send them our way.

- Mod S