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Saints and Poets
It was commissioned to celebrate the man who wins, and it spends its finest writing on the man who does not.
The Mahabharata is eighteen books long and takes eighteen days to fight. Ranna told the whole of it in one afternoon.
Not by summarising. By choosing a moment and refusing to leave it. The Gadayuddha - the Mace-War - opens on the last day, at the edge of a lake.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.