Draupadi

INDIVIDUAL DYNAMICS AND LEADERSHIP – BOOK REVIEW The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurcharan Das   CONTENT S. No. Topic Page No. 1. Introduction and summary 1 2. Objective of study 1 3. Method of study 1 4. Critical Analysis of Chapters 2 4.1 Duryodhana’s Envy 2 4.2 Draupadi’s Courage 2 4.3 Yudhishthira’s Duty 3 4.4 Yudhishthira’s Remorse 4 4.5 Arjuna’s Despair 5 4.6 Krishna’s Guile 6 4.7 Bhishma’s Selflessness 6 4.8 Karna’s Status Anxiety 7 4.9 Conclusion 8 5. Key Learning

The learned professor of a university, Ranu Uniyal, is a scholar and has published some scholarly books besides some edited ones. Her first book of poems, Across the Divide, was published in 2006. December Poems is the second volume of her poetry collection, published in 2012. Though December is a very cold month in Lucknow, a north Indian town, there are reasons for her to celebrate this month for jubilation in her life. “We dance and dance until the wee hours in the morning / Well that is what

Gosavi Vasti. Happy Colony slum is a declared slum while the Gosavi Vasti is not declared. The slum is located in Karvenagar which is one of the older parts of Pune. The irony of the name is striking as you visit the slum with the name Happy Colony. Draupadi Kushwaha, mother of four is busy attending customers at her vegetable stall as her husband is out for work. She requests us to speak in Hindi as she doesn’t understand Marathi too well. The shop faces the main road and behind is her house of one

Originated in the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism is the world 's third largest religion and the oldest living religion, ranging from 2500 BCE to present. Hinduism referred to as, “A major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, which developed from the Vedic religion.” Many people have searched for any documentation or evidence of the founder of Hinduism only to conclude that Hinduism was a collection of several paths of wisdom and reasoning rather than a specific founder. For this reason

men, girls, and boys” (Tadria). Gender creates a certain standard or expectation for individuals depending on their gender. In the epic, “Mahabharata,” there is a story that one can use to display the different standards that occur. In the story, “Draupadi,” the five Pandavas brothers: Yudhistra, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva, bring home a boon to their mother. This boon was won by Arjuna at a ceremony, however, this was no ordinary boon, it was a woman. This was a marriage ceremony for the king’s

originally written in her native Bengali language, most of her works are translated into English and regional Indian languages. The credit for translating her works into English for the first time goes to Gayatri Spivak, who had translated Mahasweta’s “Draupadi” in 1981 and “Breast-Giver” (Stanadayini) in 1987. Since then many of her stories have been translated into English by other scholarly translators, and until now about a dozen translators have translated Mahasweta’s stories into English, among whom

Devi is not merely a goddess of fertility, sex or childbirth, she is “known by [a] myriad of names and personified in many forms” (“Devi: The Great Goddess”), such as Durga the cosmic warrior, Sarasvati the goddess of learning and music, and Sita the heroine of Ramayana. One constant remains, however. Devi is immensely powerful and a prominent part of any society or religion in which she is worshipped, so much so that she represents the very “powerful spiritual energy” (“Devi: The Great Goddess”)

wasn’t virtuous and so the house was impure and compared to the jungle where the man was alone, without a best friend or companion in the form of a wife. The Mahābhārata has female characters like Shakuntala, Anamika, Urvashi, Savatri, Sulabha, Draupadi and Madhavi. Shakuntala appears in the Ādiparva and is portrayed as an as a symbol of strength and dignity who was cheated on and called a lair by the man who she loved and was married to, who later denied any kind of relationship with

and will always make me worship him in appreciation but when it comes to his role in Mahabharata, the feelings however are not same. Were his deeds right or not is a big question. Were all the decisions taken by him right? The way he behaved around draupadi was it right? Was his manipulating Arjun right? So many questions arises when we talk about his role in Mahabharata. He was the master mind behind Mahabharata. He was God he knew everything he could have stopped the war but he wanted the war to happen

licentiousness and depravity and for committing the original sin or its theological equivalent. As it is Eve in Bible, who brings about the expulsion from paradise like Greek Pandora, it is a woman who lets evil into the world. Be it Helen, Sita or Draupadi, these are the women who were the causes behind all the great wars and miseries. Religion/Patriarchy see women as property, as the object/ground of a conversation between