The Clearest View of Men Is From Below

Podcast: The Long Game for All: Counting What Frontlines Know · Venki Padmanabhan

Opublikowano: 2026-10-25

I learned the Mahabharata from my grandmother, in the years I lived in her house in Chennai for school. She told it from the verandah ledge of Ganesh Sadan on Venkataraman Street, eyes closed, her thumbs circling one another in a slow chase that never caught. She had favorites, and they were never the winners. She always came back to Karna. The greatest archer of the age, son of a god, set adrift as an infant and raised by a charioteer — and therefore, his whole life, refused. Refused at the tournament, when Kripa as...