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After Kurukshetra (Unabridged)
- Author
- Mahasweta Devi
- Narrator
- Anjum Katyal
- Publisher
- Seagull Audio
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2005
- Run Time
- 1 hour 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Mahasweta Devi
- Narrator
- Anjum Katyal
- Duration
- 1 hour 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2005
- ISBN
- 9781803093208
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Seagull Audio
- Genre
- Historical adventure fiction
Synopsis
As the warriors are cremated, the skies above Kurukshetra are dark with circling birds of prey. Reek of rotting flesh. Row upon row of oil-soaked wood pyres piled high with decomposing bodies. They are set alight. The pyres burn for days. With the ancient epic Mahabharata as her source, and the battle of Kurukshetra as a central motif, Mahasweta Devi weaves three stories in which we visit unexpected alleys and by-lanes of the traditional epic saga, and look at events from the eyes of women-marginalized, dispossessed, dalit. Their eyes condemn the wanton waste and inhumanity of war. This Kurukshetra is not the legendary Dharmayuddha of the popular imagination but rather a cold-blooded power game sacrificing countless human lives.
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