Bridging Souls: A Journey From Mahabharata to Bharata

Bridging Souls—A Journey from Mahabharata to Bharata is a thought-provoking and scholarly book that juxtaposes the events of Mahabharata with the socio-political environment of modern-day India. It is an erudite treatise that analyzes Mahabharata-related issues like the birth of the Pandavas, their use of various weapons in the Kurukshetra war and the role of many other characters on the sidelines, with wisdom as well as intelligence. It makes for racy reading as the narrative criss-crosses between the past and the present, with an endearing love story and a thrilling murder mystery, intertwined with the cerebral interpretation of the Mahabharata. Radically unorthodox and hard-hitting, the book is likely to make the reader experience a major shift in his understanding of the Mahabharata.

This book is an attempt to take a fresh look at the episodes of past, recorded in the famous epic Mahabharata. It is bound to raise a few eyebrows and may be even shock a good number of faithful believers, but for a change, one may try to review to decide if we can accept those practices today.

G M Srivastava, I.P.S. (Retd.)
Former DGP Tripura and Assam

Bridging Souls, a fascinating travelogue penned by Arindam Nath, truly bridges innumerable souls and hearts across peninsular India. Nath’s labour of love also refocuses on the essential cultural continuity in this ancient nation down the annals of history. More remarkably, the racy fluent style of narrative makes the book unputdownable till the end.

Sekhar Dutta,
Senior Journalist of The Telegraph