Until the Lions - Echoes from the Mahabharata
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAO615 |
| Author: | Karthika Nair |
| Publisher: | Harper Collins Publishers |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2015 |
| ISBN: | 9789351772828 |
| Pages: | 285 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 9.5 inch X 6.5 inch |
| Weight | 330 gm |
Book Description
Poet and dance produce/curator, Karthika Nair was born in Kerala and lives in Paris. Nair is the author of Bearings (HarperCollins India, 2009, a poetry collection, and The Honey Hunter/Le Tiger de Mile (Young Zubaan, India/Editions Helium, France, 2013), a children’s book illustrated by Joelle Jolivt. She was also the principal scriptwriter of DESH, choreographer Akram Khan’s award-winning dance production.
In Karthika Nair’s resume as an enabler, one finds mention of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Kafig/Mourad Merzouki, two Olivier awards, Auditorium Musica per Roma, the Louvre, the Shaolin Temple, misadventures with ninja swords and pachyderms, among others, many of which make their way willy-nilly into her poetry (though, hopefully, not into this retelling of the Mahabharata).
| Family Tree of the Kuru Dynasty | xii |
| Dramatis Personae | xv |
| SATYAVATI | |
| I. Fault Lines | 3 |
| PADAVIT: I. THE FATHER | |
| Pawn Talk: Brass and String | 7 |
| SPOUSES, LOVERS | |
| Constancy I | 15 |
| SATYAVATI | |
| II. Fault Lines | 19 |
| III. Fault Lines | 22 |
| IV. Fault Lines | 25 |
| V. Fault Lines | 28 |
| VI. Fault Lines | 31 |
| AMBA/SHIKHANDI | |
| Manual for Revenge and Remembrance | 37 |
| SHUNAKA | |
| Blood Count | 47 |
| SPOUSES, LOVERS | |
| Constancy II | 51 |
| SATYAVATI | |
| VII. Fault Lines | 55 |
| DHRUPADA'S WIFE: QUEEN OF PANCHALA, MOTHER OF SHIKHANDI, DRAUPADI & DHRISHTADHYUMNA, WOMAN WITHOUT A NAME | |
| Sustenance | 65 |
| SPOUSES, LOVERS | |
| Constancy III | 73 |
| SATYAVATI | |
| VIII Fault Lines | 77 |
| POORNA | |
| i. Blood Moon Rising: Poorna with Vyaasa | 87 |
| II. Poona to Satyavati: The Handmaiden's Grail | 90 |
| SPOUSES, LOVERS | |
| Constancy IV | 95 |
| SATYAVATI | |
| IX. Fault Lines | 99 |
| SAUVALI | |
| Bedtime Story for a Dasi's Son | 113 |
| GANDHARI | |
| The Deadliness of Broken Things | 123 |
| SATYAVATI | |
| X. Fault Lines | 131 |
| HIDIMBA | |
| Residuum (epistles) | 145 |
| DUSSHALA | |
| Landay for Doomed Siblings | 165 |
| ULUPI | |
| The Capillaries of Cosmic Bodies | 177 |
| KRISHNA | |
| Blueprint for a Victory | 183 |
| MOHINI | |
| Jermiad for the Debris of Stars | 191 |
| SPOUSES, LOVERS | |
| Constancy V | 197 |
| SATYAVATI | |
| XI. Fault Lines | 201 |
| UTTARAA | |
| I. Life Sentences | 215 |
| II. To Abhimanyu: Memorabilia | 217 |
| III. Note to the Unborn Child | 218 |
| KUNTI | |
| Ossature of Maternal Conquest & Reign | 223 |
| VRISHALI | |
| Testament: Vrishali with Duryodhana | 227 |
| BHANUMATI | |
| Amaranth | 235 |
| SPOUSES, LOVERS | |
| Constancy Vi | 239 |
| PADAVIT: II. THE SON | |
| Pawn Talk: Beneath the Music | 243 |
| Notes | 249 |
| References | 251 |
| Acknowledgments | 259 |
