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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)

JOURNALS

MANUSHI

June 12, 2017 By Author

  • Five Holy Virgins, Five Sacred Myths: Living by Their Own Norms, unique powers of the Panchakanyas, Issue 145 pg 30-37
  • She who must be obeyed Draupadi: The Ill Fated One, Issue 144 pg 19-30
  • Five Holy Virgins, Five sacred Myths Part III: ‘One-in-herself’ Why Kunti Remains a Kanya’ Issue 143 pg 2
  • Of Kunti and Satyavati: Sexually assertive Women of the Mahabharata, Issue 142 pg 21-25
  • Five holy Virgins, Five Sacred Myths, A Quest for meaning Issue 141 pg 4-11
  • Book Review of Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine by David Kinsley, Issue 136 pg 38-39

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MOTHER INDIA

June 11, 2017 By Author

MOTHER INDIA. MONTHLY REVIEW OF CULTURE of SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM TRUST, PONDICHERRY.

 

  • Did Homer influence Vyasa? (A Book Review) July 2015 pg 587-59
  • Anand Math – Not just a figment of the novelist’s imagination. December 2013 pg 1033-1037
  • Return of the Rhapsode. June 2011 pg 507-509
  • A Note on “Bande Mataram” March 2007 pg 202-205
  • The date of the Mahabharata war. Special Issue 24 April 2007 pg 311-319 contd…
  • The date of the Mahabharata war. May 2007 pg 375-381
  • Sri Aurobindo’s Five Dreams – Sixty Years Later. August 2007 pg 766-768
  • Books in the balance. December 2005:pg 1185 Puranic Tales for Cynical People by Parasuram translated by Pradip Bhattacharya and Shekhar Sen, published by Indialog Publications Private Ltd, New Delhi
  • Surprised by joy. A review article. January 1994 pg 56-59
  • A gap in Puranic History bridged. March 2004 pg 248-250
  • A gross misunderstanding of Sri Aurobindo. May 1994 pg 304-309
  • Purana Pravesh by Dr Girendrashekhar Bose, translated from the Bengali by Pradip Bhattacharya JULY2004 pg 576-579
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an exchange of light. Special Issue 24th November 2004 pg 1084-1089 contd
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an exchange of light. December 2004 1128-1135 contd
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an exchange of light. January 2005 pg 82-88 contd
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an experience of light. Special Issue. Febrary 2005; THE MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY pg 179-185 contd
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an experience of light. March 2005 pg 256-265 contd
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an experience of light. Special Issue. 24 April 2005 pg 350-356 contd
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an experience of light. May 2005. Pg 410 – 418 cont
  • A clear ray and a lamp – an experience of light. June 2005. pg 521-526 concluded
  • Books in the balance: Reflections on ‘Leadership and Power’ ed by S.K. Chakraborty & Pradip Bhattacharya, February 2004pg 173-178
  • Introduction to Maggi Grassi’s novel – The Legs of the Tortoise. May 2003 pg 445-451
  • The Inspiration of Bankimchandra’s Ananda Math. June 2003. Pg 503 – 506
  • The problem of Janani Janmabhumishcha in Ananda Math. December 2003 pg1088-1090
  • Books in the Balance Epic Threads – John Brockington on the Sanskrit Epics OUP New Delhi, January 2003 pg 77-84
  • Daksha and Kali, October 2002 pg 895-898
  • Books in the Balance. Questioning the Ramayana ed by Paula Richman Berkeley: University of California.December 2002 pg 1111-1116
  • Books in the balance: The Cinderella of the Ancient World: In Search of the cradle of Civilization by Georg Feurstein, Subhash Kak, David Frawley
  • The Mahabharata in Arabic and Persian. July 2009 pg 579-585
  • Karma: electable, mutable and inexorable October 2001 pg 806-813
  • The riddle of the maidens five, April1999 pg 495-508
  • “The best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” February and March 1997 issues pg 112-235
  • Books in the balance: the quest for an indian paradigm of management, January 1999 pg 68-72
  • A treasure of honey in the combs of god a review-article Pradip and Nandita Bhattacharya March 1993 pg 207-2013
  • Books in the balance: themes and structures in the Mahabharata; a study of the Adi Parva by Pradip Bhattacharya publisher Dasgupta & co, Calcutta Special issue 24 november  1992 pg 832-835
  • Illusions October 1974 pg 778
  • Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual 1995, 15th August 1995, man-agement –the Sanatana approach pg. 68-91
  • Sri Aurobindo Bbhavan kolkata – Shraddha vol,1 no 6, 15th August 200   the need of the hour pg 6-8
  • Books in the balance: themes and structures in the Mahabharata: a study of the Adi Parva Dasgupta &Co Calcutta 1989 reviewed by Dr Gauri Dharmapal November 1992
  • Desire and its fruits in the Mahabharata, Special issue 21 February: the Mother’s anniversary February 1991 pg 123-129
  • Krishna in the Mahabharata – a letter to the editor November 1991 pg 737-740
  • A note on Sri Krishna in the Mahabharata a letter to the editor, June 1991 Sri Aurobindo birth centenary library, vol 26 pg.98
  • Wordsworth the kavi and his relevance today November 1987 pg711-716 contd…
  • Wordsworth the kavi and his relevance today december 1987 pg 790-801, concluded
  • Books in the balance october 1985; The Secret of the Mahabharata by P Bhattacharya. Published by Parimal Prakashan, Aurangabad. A review by P Raja pg 696-697
  • How They Came to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Twenty –Five true Stories of Sadhaks and Devotees) Volume 4 ‘Divine Protection) pg 179-188

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JOURNAL OF HUMAN VALUES

June 10, 2017 By Author

  • Leading with wisdom: Spiritual-based Leader-ship in Business Peter Pruzan and Kirsten Pruzan mikkelsen,( 14:1 Response Books, 2008.) Volume 14, Number 1, January – June 2008. pg 97-100
  • Pancha Kanya: A Quest in Search of Meaning _Part 1. Volume 12, Number 1, January – June 2006, pg 1-29
  • Panch Kanya: A Quest in Search of Meaning Part 2. Volume 12, Number 2, July – December 2006, pg 107-136
  • Words for Princes, Volume 11, Number 1, January – June 2000
  • Bureaucracy: Ethical Perspectives. Volume 9 Number 2, July – December 2003 pg 117 – 130
  • Karma: Electable,Immutable and Inexorable. Volume 7, Number 2, July – December 2001, pg 117 – 130
  • Civil Services Reforms and Structural Adjustments. Oxford University press, 1998, pg 268. Volume 6 number 1 Jnuary-June 2000 Book Review pg 82-84
  • Revitalizing the state: A Menu of Options Pradip Khandwalla, Sage publications 1999. Volume 5 number 2 July-December 1999 Book Review pg 181-185
  • Book Review by Shashi Mishra Director general YASHADA Pune Of ‘The Tagorean Panorama (Talks given by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Shantineketan)’ New Age Publications New Delhi 1996 by S.K. Chakravarty and Pradip Bhattacharya. Volume 4, Number 1, January – June 1998, pg 113-118
  • Back to the Future or the ‘Bitter tastelessness of Shadow Fruit’? Volume 2, Number 2, July – December 1996, pg 96-132
  • Review of Parashuram, Puranic Tales for Cynical People (translated from the original Bengali by Pradip Bhattacharya and Shekhar Sen) Indialog Publications 2005 pg 165-169
  • Values and Ethics for Organisations: theory and practice Ed by S.K Chakravarty Oxford University Press 1998: 5-day Training Programme for IAS officers in the National Academy of Adminstration, Mussoorie: talk by Pradip Bhattacharya and Shekhar Sen: Quest for An Indian Management Paradigm
  • “Man-Agement—The Sanatana Approach,” Indian Institute Of Management Calcutta
  • Association of Indian Management schools: liberalised economy and quality of life Challenges for management, Selected Papers and proceedings of the AIMS seventh Annual management Education Convention 1995 (plenary and concurrent paper entitled’ Back to The Future’)
  • HRD International Perspectives on Development and Learning: Policy Parameters for Public-Service Training in India pg 122-139
  • The Indian Institute Of Public Adminstration: Relevance of Behavioural Inputs in Civil Service Training in India, reprinted from IPJA, Vol.XXXIV, No 3, July –Sept 1988 pg 529-542
  • Puratatva: Bulletin Of The Indian Archeological Society. Number 11, 1979-80, The Indus Valley Civilization- An Aryan Culture? Pg140-145
  • Pouranika, Jan-Mar 2006, Book Fair Issue. Apropos Epic Women: East & West pg 46-52 ( cont in the next issue)
  • A Gap in Puranic History Bridged pg 54-56. April-June 2005
  • That Horrible woman Kaikeyi pg 33-39 . September 2004
  • The Tantric Enigma pg 53 &64. April-June 2004
  • Parabola: Myth, Tradition,And The Search For Meaning
  • Review of ‘The Bedtrick’ By Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Press pg 120-124. Spring 2002, April 30
  • Review of ‘Splitting the Difference- Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India’ by Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Press pg 114-120. Spring 2001, April 30

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WEST BENGAL

June 9, 2017 By Author

WEST BENGAL (A WEST BENGAL GOVERNMENT ENGLISH MONTHLY)

 

  • VOLUME: XLVI No.4 APRIL 2004: “The inspiration of Bankimchandra’s Ananda Math and the problem of Janani Janmabhumischa” pg26-32

 

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BHANDAAR

June 8, 2017 By Author

BHANDAAR (West Bengal State Cooperative Union magazine since 1950)

 

  • JULY 1985: What should be the End-Product of Training in the Public Service pg 9-18
  • MAY-JUNE 1985: How Trainees learn: its Implications for Conducting Training in India pg 17-26

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THE ADMINSTRATOR

June 7, 2017 By Author

“THE ADMINSTRATOR” QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ADMINSTRATION  MUSSOORIE

  • Book review pg 181-185 of “Civil service reforms and structural adjustment” by S.K. Das (Oxford UJniversity Press1998)
  • 120 hours in Bangladesh
  • Transactional Analysis, as a tool for conscientization vol. xxvii, no. 4 (Oct-Ddec.) Winter 1982 issue
  • Unauthorised construction, vol. xxvii, no.3 (July-Sept) Autumn 1982 issue
  • The Indus Valley Civilization and the Rigveda Nexus- a pre-view of K.DSethna”s historical perspective vol. xxvi, no2, Summer 1981, issue
  • The autobiography of Vyasa vol xxvi, no. i, (January-March) Spring 1981
  • Two studies in social justice: Ghrina Mridanga and  Nanda Dului  vol xxv, no.3, Autumn 1980
  • Karpasa in prehistoric india- a chronological and cultural clue by K.D.Sethna introduction by Dr .H.D. Sankalia, vol. xxvii, no 3. (July-Sept) Autumn 1982 issue
  • The fine arts association of LBSNAA :   play ‘Cain’s mangoes’ an experimental play by Alberdo Estorino  directed by Pradip Bhattacharya   Saturday, 18th September , 1971

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