Interestingly, this story of revenge started with a deep bond of friendship. Buy the Complete Mahabharata today Drona’s ...

As the son of the god of justice, Yudhishthira was likely the most self-righteous of all the characters in the Mahabharata. As he grew up ... he expected his former disciple to speak the truth. Drona, ...

Four of the most striking characters in the Mahabharata are Arjuna,Karna,Drona and Bhishma . These men were perhaps the four greatest warriors of the era and were also well learned and had firm ...

The scale of the “Mahabharata” is daunting ... who was rejected as a student by the great military master Drona but who instead created a statue of Drona and taught himself to become a ...

In 'Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata', author Devdutt Pattanaik ... the Kauravas are led by Guru Drona and Radheya and they want to bring an end to the war. The story is narrated ...

The Mahabharata remains a rare exception in this matter. The birth of Draupadi can be traced back to her father Drupada’s defeat at the hands of his future son-in-law, Arjuna who was tasked by his ...

And Drona, the Brahmin teacher of Pandavas, who sides with Kauravas, is beheaded. Few secular scholars comment about this rather subversive aspect of the ‘Brahmanical’ epics.