KURUKSHETRANANTER

MAHABHARATA, THE INEVITABLE PART OF INDIAN LIFE AND CULTURE. IT IS AN EPIC. IT HAS MANY QUALITIES. IT DESCRIBES ALL TYPE OF MENTALITIES. IT IS SAID THAT WHATEVER IS PRESENT IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE IS ALREADY DESCRIBED IN THIS EPIC, AND WHATEVER IS NOT THERE IN MAHABHARATA IS NOWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE. IT IS FULL OF INSCRUTABLE HAPPENINGS, ABSTRUSE CHARACTERS, IT CONFUSES A COMMON MAN YET CAPTURES HIM. THE WAR PLAYED ON THE KURUKSHETRA WAS GIVEN A CONVENIENT NAME, DHARMAYUDDHA. IT ENGULFED THE CONTEMPORARY WILD CULTURE TOO. IT BURNT MANY OTHER TRADITIONS AND PERSONALITIES. THE SURPRISING PART IS THE VALUES OF LIFE WHICH HAD ALWAYS MADE LIVING EASY HAD SHATTERED THE VERY CORE OF OUR ""BEING REVEALING THE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE. KAURAV AND PANDAVAS HAD BOTH BECOME VERY HAUGHTY. VICE AND VIRTUES HAD BEEN LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN, JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE WERE IGNORED COMPLETELY. ALL THESE VIEWS GIVE US A NEW DIRECTION TO THINK ABOUT. AND WHEN THE READER THINKS THAT HE IS ABOUT TO REVEAL THE ANSWERS TO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS, NEW QUESTIONS RISE UP AGAIN. THIS BOOK WILL CERTAINLY COMPEL THE READER TO THINK ABOUT MAHABHARATA IN A DIFFERENT WAY, LIKE NEVER BEFORE. भारतीय जीवनाच्या अविभाज्य भाग असणारं महाभारत अतर्क्य घटना, व्यक्तिरेखा यांच्या अगम्य वागणुकीनं सामान्य माणसाला चक्रावून टाकत विचार करायला लावणारं, तरीही मोहवणारं महाकाव्य धर्मयुद्धा च्या नावाखाली झालेल्या कुरुक्षेत्रावरील या युद्धात समकालीन वन्यजाती-समूह आणि त्यातूनही इतर समाजघटक, व्यक्ती यांची होरपळ झाली. विशिष्ट अशी जीवनमूल्य जी त्यांना जगण्याचं बळ देऊन गेली, तीच आपल्या विचारांच्या अथांग जलाशयाला ढवळून काढत आशावादाचे, प्रवाहीपणाचे तत्त्वज्ञान आपल्याला देतात. पापपुण्याची, न्याय-अन्यायाची दुर्लक्षित बाजू, कौरव-पांडव दोन्ही बाजूंचा सत्तेचा उन्मत्तपणा आपल्याला नवीन विचारसरणी प्रदान करतो. आणि मग... अनेक प्रश्नांची उकल होते आहे, असं वाटत असतानाच वाचक परत नव्या प्रश्नांत गुरफटून जातो. महाभारत समजावून घेताना त्याकडे नव्या दृष्टीकोनानं पाहायला लावणारं... वाचकाला वेढून टाकणारं... कुरुक्षेत्रानंê