Hellooo,
I just finished reading Ira Mukhoty’s novel Song of Draupadi. On my much-treasured visit (precious because of pandemic induced absence from bookstores) to Faqir Chand Booksellers, in Khan Market, I dithered between Mukhoty’s Daughters of the Sun and this book. Daughters of the Sun is a non-fiction historical book but Song of Draupadi is a novel. That decided it for me.
I was drawn to the book, despite it being about Hinduism’s other great epic. The Mahabharata and its tragedy and gore with its monumental battle between cousins is chilling. But, Mukhoty promised a more woman-centric Mahabharata. She says, ‘I have always been interested in the depiction of women in the text, in the polyphony of female voices that struggle to be heard against the crashing background of male concerns and the strident call to war of the conch shell.’ Can a feminist resist this?
Read the review at Song of Draupadi
Would you read it? Have you read it?
Cheers,
Kalpana