Scholar, critic and writer Sunil P. Elayidom has joined this long list of Mahabharata interpreters and retellers with his latest book in Malayalam, Mahabharatham: Samskarika Charithram (Mahabharata: Cultural History). Elayidom’s book is a compilation of his Mahabharata speech series, which he delivered across Kerala from 2016 onwards. The evolutionVyasa could be the name of a series of writers, and it took hundreds of years for the ‘Mahabharata’ to take today’s written form, says Sunil P. Elayidom. | Photo Credit: Satheesh VellinezhiElayidom, like many of his predecessor-critics, doesn’t see the Mahabharata as an unvaried religious text written by a single author. The epic’s oldest available written text is from the 16th century.

Source: The Hindu September 12, 2020 11:00 UTC