Draupadi telugu novels
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One is our inability to make mainstream a literary reading of her story.
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Two chasms keep us from becoming intimate with Draupadi. The moment you make that leap, from a mere reader of the epic, to a reader and a creator of a human character Draupadi, a character with her own real complexity as a member of a family, with questions of her own womanhood, her human desires, her human disappointments, her human wishes, and an intense awareness of her own physical body, you have to admit Draupadi becomes immensely more interesting person whom we simply ought to get to know more, as much as we can. That is what Jose Saramago has done with Jesus Christ, which was my point behind the above illustration from his book. One easy way to buy into this notion is to think of oneself as a creator of this character. The character of Draupadi may not be all that interesting to a reader who either refuses to account for the tradition or just not familiar with it (a western reader for example), but given the immensity of the tradition in which she was cast in the book, she is actually one of the most intriguing characters. It is often puzzling to me why we don’t go beyond the traditionalist interpretation of these epics. Over the course of the past few years I began to re-think what a treasure is Mahabharatha, not because it is “an epic,” but because I am convinced that the real treasure lies in individual characters and how starkly individual they are. Why was that? Here I have to tell you something about my first experience of reading the Christian bible. Reading the comments sections of the two blogs, my experience was as though I was watching a slowly gyrating, thick, sticky, dark morass of opinions stuck in the religious narrative in which a bright young, fresh and agile gold fish of a “modern,” literary narrative was struggling to survive. In fact this religious, unquestioning narrative remains steadily intact throughout the years, unchanging, unfeeling and unforgiving of other views. By religious I mean the accepted narrative that had always been there, taken at a face value. I was surprised at first but disappointed later to realize how disconcertingly strong is the religious narrative of Mahabharatha. But soon this happiness turned into an alarm and disconcert. I smiled at first because I was happy to see something familiar once again – having begun reading Telugu blogs only recently and been away from Telugu world for nearly twenty years.
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The discussion was centered on Draupadi, or more to the point, Laxmi Prasad’s version of Draupadi. So I thought a bit more about where this disconnect is emerging from. Perhaps the disconnect lies entirely within me. Recently I have been reading the blog discussions, both on this site and on Kalpana Rentala’s blog, on the Central Sahitya Academy Award winning book on Draupadi by Acharya Yarlagadda Laxmi Prasad and once again there was that feeling in me of a strange but familiar disconnect with my own Telugu people. The reason I quote these passages is this.