A History Check

It has been a long time since I read the Mahabharata. Names like Vidura, Dushala and Gandhari hang around vaguely as I try to place them in context. My initiation into Mahabharata and the other Indian myths was, as must have been in your case, through my grandmother. I remember her sitting next to me, telling me stories from the Mahabharata as I drank my cup of milk. These stories always managed to fill me with awe. They were stories of great hardship, stories of righteousness, stories of Bravery and stories filled with morality. But most of all, they were immensely entertaining.

Very soon, however, I got bitten by the reading bug. I started with Amar Chitra Kathas. These comics were filled colorful pictures and lucid dialogue. I was in love and justifiably so. Over the next five years, I grew up on Complan, boiled eggs, workbooks and textbooks, and Amar Chitra Kathas. And ACKs were the only thing I loved in that list. It translated the Gita into understandable nuggets for me. It even helped me understand my Sanskrit lessons better. But more than anything else, ACKs provided me with constant companionship, laughter and fun.

 


But then, we are not going to stick to the same old story are we? Nope! We have grown beyond Amar Chitra Kathas. What we have, for you, is nothing short of the craziest, zaniest trip you'll experience. EVER! So be there at Ethiraj College Auditorium on the 26th of September, at eleven in the morning!