About the Book: Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
Poetry that explores the Mahabharata from a female perspective.
In Until the Lions, Karthika Naïr retells the Mahabharata through multiple
voices. Her poems capture the epic through the lenses of nameless soldiers,
outcast warriors and handmaidens but also abducted princesses, tribal queens and
a gender-shifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take centre
stage, we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the edifices of god
and nation, heroes and victory; a glimpse of the price paid for myth and history
all too often interchangeable.
About the Author: Karthika NaÏr
Karthika Naïr was born