About the book

Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this storyof war between cousins-thePandavas and the Kouravas-but the Mahabharata isabout conflicts of dharma.These conflicts are immenseand various, singular andcommonplace. Throughout theepic, characters face them withno clear indications of what isright and what is wrong; thereare no absolute answers. Thusevery possible human emotionfeatures in the Mahabharata,the reason the epic continues tohold sway over our imagination.In this superb and widely acclaimed translation of thecomplete Mahabharata, BibekDebroy takes on a great journeywith incredible ease.

About the Author

Bibek Debroy is a member of NitiAayog. He is an economist whohas published popular articles,papers and books on economics. He also writes on Indology andSanskrit. Penguin publishedSarama and Her Children: TheDog in Indian Myth in 2008 andhis translation of the BhagavadGita in 2006. Bibek Debroy wasawarded the Padma Shri in 2015.