Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of The Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we look at Ukraine’s ...

The Night the War Refused to End The Mahabharata was over—or so everyone thought. The Kauravas had fallen, the Pandavas stood ...

The subliminal message that the origins of the Duryodhana-Karna friendship gives us is clear: Duryodhana recruited Karna but ...

In the epic realms of Ramayana and Mahabharata, warfare was not merely a contest of steel and skill—it was a clash of divine energies and cosmic forces. Warriors invoked weapons not through mere ...

Bharadwaj’s influence spanned the Ramayana and Mahabharata periods. He was one of the Saptarishis in the Mahabharata, where Acharya Drona, his ayonija (not born from a womb) son, played a pivotal role ...

He grows up in the forest, brave and strong. The Udyog Parva and the Drona Parva in the Mahabharata mention Eklavya’s life story, and his eventual killing by Lord Krishna. Drona having his thumb cut ...

Karna asked Dronacharya to be his teacher but Drona banished to teach the son of a coachman. Once Karna challenged Arjuna to an archery battle, but Arjuna did not want to fight with people whose ...

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.

To get him to surrender, the Pandavas came up with a plan. Bhima killed an elephant called Ashwatthama, Yudhishthira infomed Guru Drona that Ashwatthama was dead, and by the time he reached to the ...