Lecture on
“Revisiting Mahabharat: An individual perspective”

by Professor Vrinda Nabar,
Visiting Research Professor, Kavivarya Bakibaab Borkar Chair in Comparative Literature at Goa University

Thursday | 9th February 2017 | 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Co – organised by The International Centre Goa
and Visiting Research Professors Programme (VRPP) of Goa University

Entry Free | Open to public

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Vrinda Nabar is an author, critic and translator. She is currently Visiting Research Professor and Kavivarya Bakibaab Borkar Chair in Comparative Literature, Goa University. She has previously served as Chair of English, Mumbai University and has been Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (USA) and The Open University (UK).  Her published work includes the academic bestseller Caste as Woman (Penguin, 2000); Family Fables and Hidden Heresies: A Memoir of Mothers and More (HarperCollins, 2011); The Bhagavadgita (Introduction and Translation) (1997); The Endless Female Hungers: A Study of Kamala Das (Cardiff Academic Press, 1984) and Snake-Skin and Other Poems of Indira Sant (translated from the Marathi) (1975).

Synopsis

This presentation revisits a familiar and much-loved classic from a perspective which combines the personal with the academic. While it critiques select depictions of Mahabharat’s multiple narratives in literature and the performing arts, its primary thrust remains individual and intuitive because it is at this basic level of response that both Mahabharat and Ramayan retain their hold on the popular consciousness.