We are all Dhritarashtra

Unlike some leading commentators on current affairs, I make no claim of having studied the Mahabharata first hand. My familiarity with the great epic, such as it is, is entirely derivative, with an enormous debt to Irawati Karve’s magnum opus, Yuganta (1969). Yet I am tempted by the turn of events this last week to offer a hypothesis on that slender base.

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