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This article is based on conversations with Dinesh Yadav, a theatre director and artist who has been working with and on Pandun ka kada (Pandava’s couplets) since 1997, and Gafruddin Mewati Jogi, a senior artist and performer of Pandun ka kada.
For centuries, Mahabharata has allowed for…
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A mammoth narrative, Mahabharata is roughly 10 times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, and about four times the length of Ramayana. It is also, however, much more than a purely textual tradition. Heard and told for centuries, it is intricately woven into the cultural fabric of India…
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Mahabharata is one of the two best-known epics of the Indian subcontinent. Spread over multiple generations and territories, telling of the churning of the sea, of the genealogies of several warriors, devas and asuras, of numerous encounters between devas, rakshasas and humans, and of an epic war…
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Pandvani is one of the most celebrated forms of folklore from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known.This series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, The recitation…
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Pandvani is one of the most celebrated performative genres from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known. A series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, who presents…
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Pandvani is one of the most celebrated performative genres from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known.This series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, The…
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Pandvani is one of the most celebrated performative genres from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known.This series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, The…
in Video
Pandvani is one of the most celebrated performative genres from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known.This series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, The…
in Video
Pandvani is one of the most celebrated forms of folklore from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known.This series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, The…
in Video
Pandvani is one of the most celebrated performative genres from Chhattisgarh. Known mostly as a regional/ folk version of the Mahabharata, its terms of relationship with the Sanskrit epic are little known.This series of modules presents the recitation of the Pandavani by Prabha Yadav, The…
in Video