Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Mahabharata and its textuality/Satya Deva Mishra. 2. On the difficulty of being good/Gurcharan Das. 3. Ramayana in the Mahabharata/Avadhesh Kumar Singh. 4. Mahabharata and Javanese Wayang Kulitan Australian perspective/Alur Janaki Ram. 5. Textual politics in Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel/Ashutosh Mohan. 6. Mahabharata: spiritual and symbolic significance/M.M. Gehlot. 7. Looking glass self: Mahabharata as a "Significant Other"/Rakesh Thakur. 8. Mahabharata and Indian Diaspora/C.L. Raina. 9. The Mewati Mahabharata: Pandum Ka Kada/Malati Mathur. 10. Tourism in the Mahabharata/Abhinav Kamal Raina. 11. Draupadi's question: lessons for public and corporate governance/Gurcharan Das. 12. The tension between difference and identity, the dialectics of motherhood and filiality R.N. Tagore's Karna-Kunti Sambad/Keya Majumdar. 13. Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinam/S. Bhatnagar. 16. David Williamson and Girish Karnad: playwrights with magnitude/Pradeep Trikha. Notes on contributors. Bibliography. Index. (Two articles in Hindi).

"Textuality and intertextuality in the Mahabharata is a collection of sixteen essays which sets out to explore the limits of the epic.

Moving beyond plot and story the epic has come to represent a complex web of meaning produced through multiple strategies of reading and interpreting it. The present collection of essays represents myriad, interesting and insightful dialogue on textuality and intertextuality of the myths, its meaning and metamorphosis of meaning over the years. The contributors have explored the epic in different genres they have taken traditional and radical interpretation into consideration." (jacket)