As the epic itself claims, “YadihaastiTadanyatraYannehaasti Na Tatkwachit”, (i.e, if it is not found here, it is nowhere – Mahabharata), Shankhamala, amidst its vivacious journey of more than four decades in , has advent to understand the causes and grounds of decline of democracy in the rise of great lies backed by the tyranny of rulers in the nation and at the global level to produce “Mahaavaidurya” as to explore, simultaneously, the performative excellence in a team of elocutionists under the direction of Sri SumantraSengupta.
The narrative is based on the post-Mahabharata search of ‘Dharma’ or the pure one, who would explain the collapse of a so called ‘just empire’ earned through the blood-shaded ‘Dharmayudh’. As the advocacy of all major heroes of the time fall short, Dharma-putra discloses the identity of his pater, who in turn invites his ancestor and the giver of the epic to elucidate the degeneration of polity. |
