The Mahabharata is the epic history of an entire people, a vast and mythic universe dreamed out of the land of India and explored by countless storytellers over thousands of years. I have long loved these stories, but have only recently begun to tell them myself. Here are some of the results of my journeys into this wild and ever-unfolding landscape.

A poet, an elephant-headed god and a king astray in a forest: so begins the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic shot through with the wisdom of ancient sages and the ten thousand sorrows and joys of being alive on this earth. In some ways it is not possible either to begin or to finish hearing this story, for it is the story of the world; nevertheless the spark is struck, the word is spoken, and our journey begins.​

Photo: Sunrise on Mount Kalindi in the Himalayas by Sharada Prasad

"Everything in the Mahabharata is also found somewhere else.
What is not found in the Mahabharata is nowhere." --Vyasa