Vansha : Mahabharat Kavita (Hindi Edition)

Hazari Prasad Das is known for his modern vision, deep understanding of tradition, and his distinctive Odia voice. The poems collected in Vansh are a unique example of his extensive poetic practice. In fact, it is a well-crafted poetic series of deep introspection of almost all the characters of the Mahabharata. The poets reconstruction of the Mahabharata through these seventy poems is not merely a technical modernization of the story. There is no attempt to make superficial changes to the Mahabharatas plot or the inner nature of its characters. This rereading is an attempt by a modern and self-conscious poet to establish a relationship of creative intertextuality with the Mahabharata. Completely different from the manipulation of a time to this time, it is a poem of the experience and understanding of the tragedy of a civilized crisis, which he creates in the ancient form of the story in such a way that we see the entire ancient Mahabharata reduced to the ironies and futile frustrations of our contemporary experience. In the daily routine of our folk life, among the living and dying, and confronted with the immediate images of our surroundings, we discover that the Mahabharata is not merely a symbol or metaphor for some distant classical height or depth. Embedded in the ordinary realities of folk life, in family rituals, and like stories, the Mahabharata, through Hazari Prasads creativity, becomes a poignant document of our inner selves. It is also significant that the work of Vansh possesses such a unique synthesis of the classical and the folk that it conveys the existential crisis of humanity in a simple folk language.