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Title: The Pregnant King—a unique retelling of lost stories
Post by: Natasha on June 26, 2008, 12:59:35 AM
The Pregnant King—a unique retelling of lost stories

http://sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14702523
6/25/2008

"We may have heard of the transgender Shikhandi. But Yuvanashva? Hardly. They are but fringe characters in the Mahabaratha. Or so it seems until Devdutt Pattanaik tells us otherwise at a book reading session held at the Odyssey over the weekend.

Pattanaik, a management consultant, is a mythologist by "passion". In his latest release, The Pregnant King, he brings together mythology from the Mahabaratha and its folk versions from Andhra and Tamil Nadu."