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Assistant Professor of Religion Sohini Pillai<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of Religion<\/a> Sohini Pillai will represent Kalamazoo College at 9 a.m. Eastern time Sunday in a YouTube lecture titled \u201cThe Multiplicity of the Mahabharata Tradition\u201d that she will present through Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiative is an independent, student-led initiative based in India, which aims to revive the love for India\u2019s heritage and history and inspire young minds. Throughout the pandemic, it has organized scholarly online lectures on Indian history, culture, art, literature, film and religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ancient Sanskrit Mahabharata (c. 300 BCE\u2013300 CE) is a massive epic poem 15 times the length of the Bible that focuses on the war over the Bharata kingdom between two sets of paternal cousins in the royal Kuru family, the five Pandavas and the 100 Kauravas. Pillai said the Mahabharata has been presented as poems, dramas, ballads, novels, short stories, comic books, television shows, feature films, children\u2019s fantasy series, podcasts, YouTube videos, social media posts and more.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pillai\u2019s talk Sunday will illustrate the rich multiplicity of the Mahabharata tradition through the close examination of 12 renderings of a single Mahabharata episode that was created over a span of at least 2,000 years. She will focus on the most disturbing and popular scenes in the Mahabharata tradition, the attempted disrobing of Draupadi, the shared wife of the Pandavas, and the heroine of the epic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May\u00a02021,\u00a0Pillai\u00a0co-edited\u00a0a volume\u00a0with Nell Shapiro Hawley\u00a0of\u00a0Harvard University\u00a0titled\u00a0Many\u00a0Mahabharatas, which\u00a0was published by State University of New York Press.\u00a0Some of the\u00a0Mahabharatas\u00a0she will discuss Sunday\u00a0will be\u00a0prominently\u00a0featured\u00a0in\u00a0her\u00a0current book project which is tentatively titled\u00a0Krishna at Court: Devotion, Patronage and the Mahabharata in Premodern South Asia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The talk will be available free of charge to the public at the Karwaan initiative\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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