Pradip Bhattacharya

Indologist, Mahabharata scholar

Reviews in The Statesman

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  • Krishna in the Harivamsa, Vol 2, The Greatest of all Sovereigns and Masters by Andre Couture. DK Printworld, New Delhi. The Sunday Statesman 15. 04.18

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  • What the Ancillary Stories do in the Mahabharata. V. Adluri and J. Bagchee: Argument and Design—the unity of the Mahabharata. Brill, 2016. The Sunday Statesman 17.10.2017

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  • Management by Mythology. 14 Principles of Management to live by. By Utkarsh Patel. The Sunday Statesman 06.07.2017

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  • The Song of Arjun and the Hegemony of the Yadavas: Arjun Pandava: The Double hero in Epic Mahabharata by Kevin McGrath: Orient blackswan.  The Sunday Statesman 20.02.2016

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  • 150th Anniversary of a translator, Kaliprasanna’s greatest literary feat. The Sunday Statesman 23.10.2016

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  • A Treasure Trove in English: evading the shadows by Rajesh M Iyer. Kriscendo media, Frog Books. The Sunday Statesman 6.11.2016

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  • Reconsidering the Mahabharata: Ways and Reasons for Thinking about the Mahabharata as a Whole, ed, V. Adluri, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Pune. The Sunday Statesman 7.8.2016

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  • The significance of a neglected text: Krishna in the Harivamsha Vol. 1 – The wonderful play by a cosmic child, Andre Couture. DK Printworld, New Delhi. The Sunday Statesman 3.7.2016

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  • A landmark in Indological studies, Samsad Companions to the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, MADHUSRABA DASGUPTA, Sishu Sahitya Samsad. The Sunday statesman 19.04.2015

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  • A revolutionary thesis – The Mahabharata Patriline: Gender, culture and the royal hereditary, S.P. Brodbeck, Ashgate, UK. The Sunday Statesman 12.04.2015

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  • Did Vyasa adapt Homer, Mahabharata and Greek Mythology, Fernando Wulff Alonso,  Motilal Banarasidass. The Sunday Statesman 15.03.2015

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  • Victory is the name of this history Jaya – Performance in epic Mahabharata, Kevin McGrath, Harvard University Press. The Sunday Statesman 17.11.2013

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  • The mighty fallen in the midst of battle, The Mahabharata, volume7, Bibek Deb Roy, Penguin India. The Sunday Statesman, 06.10.2013

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  •  The Epic Psychology, Battle, Bards and Brahmins Ed by John Brockington, Motilal Banarasidass. The Sunday Statesman, 17.03.2013

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  •  Perspective: Was Hindu angst over Doniger book justified, The Hindus, An Alternative History, Wendy Doniger. The Statesman, 17.02.2014

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  • The Unique Figure in Indo-European epic poetry, Heroic Krishna-friendship in epic Mahabharata, Kevin McGrath, Harvard University Press. The Sunday Statesman, 26.01.2014

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  •  Born for Valour, Born to achieve, The Mahabharata of Vyasa: The Complete Karna Parva, Transcreated from Sanskrit P.Lal, Writers Workshop. The Sunday Statesman, 07.09.2008

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  • A Zero-Sum Game on a A Darkling Plain, The Complete Drona Parva, Transcreated from Sanskrit, P. Lal, Writers Workshop. The Sunday Statesman, 10.02 2008

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  • Interlude – the – Incognito: The Complete Virata Parva of the Mahabharata: transcreated from Sanskrit by P. Lal, Writers Workshop. The Sunday Statesman, 19.08.2007

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  • Revolutionizing Ancient History: The Case of Israel and Christianity. The Statesman Festival Issue 2004, Pages 130- 135

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