Draupadi was the most sought after beauty, but even she couldn’t live up to the ‘standards’ Image sourceĭespite her personality and beauty, she herself was compelled to think of herself as “a princess afflicted with a skin so dark that people termed it blue”.ģ. Draupadi, Daughter of Drupad.” And Draupadi is left to wonder “Granted, he hadn’t been expecting me, but couldn’t my father have come up with something a little less egoistic?”Ģ. Even a princess born out of fire couldn’t avoid the way the birth of a girl child is perceived in India, as something of a bane Image sourceĬome to think of “the meaning of the names our father chose. ![]() ![]() In fact, what India is today – the values, the traditions that unite the diverse cultures and ethnicity of our country, is largely inspired from this epic tale of valour.īe it the shenanigans of the Kauravas or the wisdom of the Krishna, this epic talks about it all and more.Ĭhitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s noted novel The Palace of Illusions, which is written from Draupadi’s point of view, asks some very important questions, especially about the patriarchal practices, that in some or the other way, continue to bind us till date. ![]() The Mahabharata, till this day, remains one of the foremost epic sagas our country has produced.
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