The First Knot

Patil’s retelling is as multidimensional as the story itself. Time and space warp as the characters traverse aeons of complex karmic binds running through their bloodstreams. They fight and pray, meditate and make love, pay heed to the gods and gather around the fire to listen to the stories of old — narrated by none other than Ganga herself. Indeed, this rendering of the Adi Parva, the first book of the Mahabharata, is primarily about the women of the great epic. As daughters and mothers, wives and lovers, warriors, widows and crones — women are the creative matrix through which all else becomes.