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A review by lsparrow
Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling by Carole Satyamurti
3.0
I am not sure that I loved the writing - but of course when one is dealing with an ancient text written originially in ain a language that is no longer a mother tongue of anyone living and a language of religion and achedemics which is translated by an author who is a native English speaker it is hard to tell what is being lost in translation - either linguistically or culturally.
Overall I felt that I enjoyed reading this classic - it should have been required reading for high school for me in Pakitstan. It would have given so much cultural insight and explaination.
Epic stories of gods and kings, battles and exiles, births and deaths and also a good deal of spiritual and social instruction. I was also pleasantly surprised by views on gender and sexuality that I might have assumed were not hsitoryally cultural which were addressed.
Overall I felt that I enjoyed reading this classic - it should have been required reading for high school for me in Pakitstan. It would have given so much cultural insight and explaination.
Epic stories of gods and kings, battles and exiles, births and deaths and also a good deal of spiritual and social instruction. I was also pleasantly surprised by views on gender and sexuality that I might have assumed were not hsitoryally cultural which were addressed.