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Not Your Mother's Mahabharata
The Mahabharata is this epic Indian work that encapsulates a great deal of Indian Mythology. It is a magnificent story that is constantly being rewritten and retold since its inception that was somewhere between 3000 BC and 1500 BCE
‘Not Your Mother’s Mahabharata with SP Jayaraj’ is a podcast where S.P. Jayaraj tell the story conversationally to his wife Azure Anderson and to friends, most of whom have never heard of the tale. Listeners familiar and unfamiliar with the epic are treated to their entertainingly honest first reactions.
Doing it conversationally as opposed to it being a straight up reading allows there to be variations in the story and the chance to pick apart some of the ideas about life that the Mahabharat brings to the forefront.
This podcast’s goal is to make this great work accessible, and entertaining to an adult audience. Come in expecting some laughs, some pop culture tangents, and some adult language.
This is a labor of devotion to the Mahabharat quite unlike any other you might come across.
Not Your Mother's Mahabharata
Latest Episodes
NYMM 50: I'll Take your Shiny Skin and Earrings Please.
Christine Mounts joins us for... a Karna mid-redemption story?Every day, after his morning prayers to the Sun god Surya (also his dad though he doesn't know it,) Karna will give anything asked of him to brahmanas. Knowing his intentions ...
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NYMM 49: Paper Thin Disguises Blessed by Gods.
Beth Beaty joins us as the Pandavas transition from living in the forests to living in hiding back in civilization. If they are discovered, it's another long twelve years to thirteen exile extension. Our heroes take ordinary jobs tha...
NYMM 48: Riddle Me This, Cause your Lives Depend On it!
Marjorie Hakala joins us for the finale to Adi Parva (the book of the forest)The Pandavas are just about done with their twelve years in the forest, but poor big brother Yudhishthira has not been doing as well as he's claimed. Though the...
NYMM 47: The Hangry Sage and Loathsome Brother-in-Law.
The Pandavas are almost done with year 12 of living in exile, but there are still a couple more attempts to knock them down a peg or two.First Duryhodana tries to have a sage arrive at the Pandavas abode at the worst time to get them cur...
NYMM 46: You Don't Get To Kill Your Enemies When You're Dead
We start off season four by getting right neighborly with Taylor Olesen.After some catch up and necessary banter about what it's been like living in the Twin Cities these past months, we get back to Duryodhan's journey after he has been ...
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