Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan's 'The Dharma Forest'
Fascinated; A Kathakakli dancer enacts a scene from the Mahabharata. | Photo Credit: Getty images/ IStock This retelling of the Mahabharata is realistic unto distastefulness, chiefly because of the author’s intoxication with the source material Suppose you are regarded as a venerable fount of wisdom. What kind of disciple would you want for yourself? Obviously, one who is completely faithful to your sentiments, who conveys your thoughts exactly as expressed, who invariably upholds your authority. So it may seem, at first blush. But is this really so? I think you would soon find yourself...