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from Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling (2)

Then the weather broke. First came the wind whipping the sea to frothy peaks and troughs, bullying the trees to bow before it. Then the rain: a few large drops at first followed by blue forked lightning, which lit up the lashing sea; and then the deafening crash, the cannonades of thunder so explosive it […]

from Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling

As morning broke on the opening day of war, the rising sun (as Sánjaya described it to the king) streaked the sky with scarlet. The heat slowly burned off the mist that hung over the plain. The opposing armies, division upon division, stretched away as far as the eye followed the curving earth. All was […]

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