Dharamvir Bharati

Andha Yug

The Age of Darkness
Übersetzer: Bhalla, Alok

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. It explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a dispirited age. This edition includes an essay by Yael Rice revealing the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar. One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. It explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a dispirited age. This edition includes an essay by Yael Rice revealing the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar. One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. It explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a dispirited age. This edition includes an essay by Yael Rice revealing the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar. One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. It explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a dispirited age. This edition includes an essay by Yael Rice revealing the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar. One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. It explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a dispirited age. This edition includes an essay by Yael Rice revealing the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar. One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. It explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a dispirited age. This edition includes an essay by Yael Rice revealing the Indian, Persian, and European elements within the translations, as well as the diverse cultural character of the Mughal court of Akbar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 173mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780824835170
• ISBN-10: 0824835174
• Artikelnr.: 47488100

Autorenporträt

Alok Bhalla is a scholar, translator, and poet based in Delhi, India. He a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, and editor of the four-volume collection Stories About the Partition of India.