I picked up this short book in New Delhi’s Khan Market just before my 13 hour plane ride back to the US and it kept me well entertained for the first part of the flight. Author Nalin Verma offers 37 folk tales and fables from Bihar, his homeland. These stories are filled with virtually every […]
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Naïr. This review appeared in the Harvard Review on January 28, 2020: https://www.harvardreview.org/book-re… The Mahabharata, the larger of India’s two epics, was composed roughly 2,000 years ago. This literary hulk of 100,000 verses (200,000 lines) narrates the multigenerational story of two groups of cousins that battle […]