I Am So Much More Than The Colour Of My Skin

A dazzling and eloquent reworking of the Mahabharata one of South Asias bestloved epics through nineteen peripheral voices. With daring poetic forms Karthika Naïr breathes new life into this ancient epic. Karthika Naïr refracts the epic Mahabharata through the voices of nameless soldiers outcast warriors and handmaidens as well as abducted princesses tribal queens and a gendershifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take center stage we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the dramas of god and nation heroics and victory of the lives obscured by myth and history all too often interchangeable. Until the Lions is a kaleidoscopic poetic tour de force. It reveals the most intimate threads of desire greed and sacrifice in this foundational epic.