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Shamini Gairola

E-BOOK.PDF: Introduction to Mahabharata

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Indian and Hindu Texts

To be Indian, or simply to be living in India at any period in her recorded history, is to open oneself to the benign moral influence of two epics - the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Caste, creed, colour do not matter here; what matters is the degree, range, and subtlety of exposure, which in tum determines the quality of the affected person's "Indianness," whatever that very large word means. It certainly means the very opposite of cultural myopia, and has no connection with any kind of hyper-sensitive parochial inwardness...

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