A review by becksri29
The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R.K. Narayan

4.0

Fascinating... Wish I had the opportunity to read this back in HS freshman English lit to compare critically with Homer's Odyssey. East vs. West, the different pantheons of gods, the meaning of the underlying challenges to our heroes, treatment of women... Especially because now I feel a bit too lazy to write the kind of analytical essay I would have churned out at the age of 14. Anyway, I feel like this should be read by more Western readers, at least as an intro to non-western philosophy.