The Ramayana and the Mahabharata have been among the most popular books, of any kind, in India for ages. A major part of their appeal is that they work as human stories whose events bring out ...

The choreographer Akram Khan’s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming ...

Picture: David Cooper. Their Mahabharata has attracted mixed audiences, from South Asian Indians who grew up with strong connections to these stories, to people with almost no prior knowledge ...