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Pradip Bhattacharya

Indologist, Mahabharata scholar

  • BOOKS
    • MAHABHARATA
      • The Mahabharata of Vyasa – Moksha Dharma Parva
      • The Jaiminiya Mahabharata
      • The Jaiminiya Ashvamedhaparva
      • The Secret of the Mahabharata
      • Themes & Structure in the Mahabharata
      • The Mahabharata TV film Script: A Long Critique
      • YAJNASENI: The Story Of Draupadi
      • Pancha Kanya: the five virgins of India’s Epics
      • Revisiting the Panchakanyas
      • Narrative Art in the Mahabharata—the Adi Parva
      • Prachin Bharatey ebong Mahabharatey Netritva O Kshamatar Byabahar
    • LITERATURE
      • Ruskin’s Unto This Last: A Critical Edition
      • TS Eliot – The Sacred Wood, A Dissertation
      • Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Krishna Charitra
      • Shivaji Sawant’s Mrityunjaya: A Long Critique
      • Subodh Ghosh’s Bharat Prem Katha
      • Parashuram’s Puranic Tales for Cynical People
    • PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & MANAGEMENT
      • Leadership & Power: Ethical Explorations
      • Human Values: The Tagorean Panorama
      • Edited Administrative Training Institute Monographs 1-20. Kolkata. 2005-9
      • Edited Samsad Series on Public Administration. Kolkata, 2007-8
    • COMICS
      • KARTTIKEYA
      • The Monkey Prince
    • HOMEOPATHY
      • A New Approach to Homoeopathic Treatment
  • BOOK REVIEWS
    • Reviews in The Statesman
      • Review : Rajesh M. Iyer: Evading the Shadows
      • Review : Bibek DebRoy: The Mahabharata, volume 7
      • Review :The Harivansha – The Significance of a Neglected Text
      • Review : Battle, Bards and Brahmins ed. John Brockington
      • Review : Heroic Krishna. Friendship in epic Mahabharata
      • Review : I Was Born for Valour, I Was Born to Achieve Glory
      • Review : The Complete Virata and Udyoga Parvas of the Mahabharata
      • Review : Revolutionizing Ancient History: The Case of Israel and Christianity
    • Reviews in BIBLIO
    • Reviews in INDIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS And THE BOOK REVIEW New Delhi
    • Reviews in INDIAN BOOK CHRONICLE (MONTHLY JOURNAL ABOUT BOOKS AND COMMUNICATION ARTS)
  • JOURNALS
    • MANUSHI
    • MOTHER INDIA
    • JOURNAL OF HUMAN VALUES
    • WEST BENGAL
    • BHANDAAR
    • THE ADMINSTRATOR
    • INDIAN RAILWAYS MAGAZINE
    • WORLD HEALTH FORUM, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, GENEVA
    • INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE QUARTERLY
    • ACTUALITIES EN ANALYSE TRANSACTIONNELLE
    • THE HERITAGE
    • TASI DARSHAN
  • STORIES, ESSAYS & POSTS
    • Chakravyuha by Manoranjan Bhattacharya
    • The Head Clerk. A short story.
    • BANGLADESH NEW-BORN: A MEMOIR
  • GALLERY
  • PROFILE
    • About the Author
    • IN THE NEWS
      • Epic discovery: City scholars find lost Mahabharata in Chennai library – The Times of India (Kolkata)

Reviews in BIBLIO

May 26, 2017 By Author

Reviews in BIBLIO:

 

  • A Watershed in Epic studies: The Mahabharata-Volumes 9 &10  Bibek Debroy  Volume XX No 12 December 2015 Pg 28,29.
  • On Illusion and Reality: On Hinduism –Wendy Doniger, Vol XVIII  No  9&10 September -October 2013 Pg12-13
  • Breaking Away from two centuries of Western  READING THE FIFTH VEDA-studies on the Mahabharata-essays by Alf Hiltebeitel Vol 1  &  When the goddess was a woman  MAHABHARATA  ETHNOGRAPHIES  – Essays By Alf    Hiltebeitel, Vol 2  VOLUME XXXVII Number 9 september2013 Pg 4-6.
  • Return of the Rhapsode: Flowers for my Father Sreemati Lal  Writers Workshop VoL  XVI  Nos 9 & 10  september- October 2011 pg 12
  • To do the right thing for the wrong reason by Gurcharan Das penguin books , London VOL XIV NOS 9 & 10 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2009 pg 32
  • Never victorious, Never defeated Pancha Kanya- The five virgins of Indian epics: A Quest In Search Of Meaning Pradip Bhattacharya  Writers workshop  review by Amreeta Sen  pg 39.
  • Is The Goddess A Feminist ? The politics Of South Asian Goddesses ed by Alf Hiltebeitel & Kathleen M. Erndl Sheffield Academic press VOL IX NOS 1 & 2 JANUARY- FEBRUARY 2004 pg 34
  • Tribals and Tribulations , Forest Interludes : A Collection of Journals and Fictions by Anita Agnihotri VOL VI nos 5&6 May- June 2001, pg 25-26
  • Trick or Treat , The Bedtrick by Wendy Doniger University of Chicago press VOL VII NOs 11 & 12 November –December 2002 pg 21-22
  • Femme fatale, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India By Wendy Doniger  University of Chicago press VOL VI NOS 3&4 MARCH-APRIL 2001 pg 33-34
  • Questioning Tradition Arshi Sattar on Pradip Bhattacharya”s  1)  Pancha Kanya : The Five Virgins of The indian Epics, 2) Revisiting the Panch Kanyas ,3) Puranic tales for Cynical people, Volume XXXII Number 3 March 2008 pg 12
  • The Mahabharata of Vyasa: The Complete Adi Parva Transcreated from Sanskrit by P. Lal . 2) The Mahabharata by Meera Uberoi; After Kurukshetra by Mahasweta Devi, WORLD BOOK FAIR SPECIAL ISSUE Vol XXX NUMBER 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2006 pg 31
  • The Women Who pretended to Be Who She Was by Wendy Doniger, Volume 4 April 2006 pg 39
  • Jatakamala translated from the Sanskrit by A.N.D.Haksar Volume XXX NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2004 pg 39-40
  • Ramayana Under a Lexical Microscope, Epic threads- John Brockington on the Sanskrit Epics. SECOND SPECIAL SILVER JUBILEE ISSUE (SOUTH ASIA SPECIAL II)   Volume XXX NUMBER 3 MARCH 2001  pg 33-35
  • Tales & Teachings of the Mahabharata by Janaki Abhisheki VOLUME XXX NUMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 2000 pg 22
  • Values and Ethics for Organisations: Theory and practice edited by S.K Chakraborty. VOLUME XXIV NUMBER 6 JUNE 2000 pg 35
  • DEVI: Goddesses of India by J.S Hawley and D.M. Wulff, VOLUME XXIII NUMBER 5 MAY 1999 pg 13-15
  • The Salt has lost its savour: CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTS by S.K DAS VOLUME XXII NUMBER 12  DECEMBER 1998 pg 19-20
  • PROSTITUTING HERITAGE Book Review of Stories from the Puranasby Sri Dilip Mukhopadhyay ( Rupa& Co ) VOLUME 4 NUMBER 6 16APRIL1995-15 MAY 1995
  • Biased Interpretation The Bhagvad Gita, Vikas Publishing House, New delhi,   Jan-feb 82 pg 165-168

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