In 1982, the English theatre and film director Peter Brook met the chief of a village in Purulia, West Bengal, while he was touring India in preparation for his 9-hour play based on the epic ...

“It’s layered, it has emotion, it has scale. Everything you find in the world, you will find in Mahabharata,” Khan said. He added that the story has been important to him for many years and that he’s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic. By Sopan Deb ...

All episodes of Kurukshetra: Part 1 are now streaming on Netflix in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. Netflix’s animated series Kurukshetra brings the Mahabharata’s blood-soaked ...

At its most simple, it’s a story of warring families – Pandava and Kaurava royalty – and the ethics of ruling, war, violence and empathy, featuring the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God), a sacred text in ...