Bhima: Lone Warrior
Mar 2018 · Harper Collins
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This is the story of Bhima, the second son, always second in line -- a story never adequately told until one of India's finest writers conjured him up from the silences in Vyasa's narrative. M.T. Vasudevan Nair's Bhima is a revelation -- lonely, eager to succeed, treated with a mixture of affection and contempt by his Pandava brothers, and with scorn and hatred by his Kaurava cousins, Bhima battles incessantly with failure and disappointment. He is adept at disguising his feelings, but has an overwhelmingly intuitive understanding of everyone who crosses his path. A warrior without equal, he takes on the mighty Bakasura and Jarasandha, and ultimately Duryodhana, thus bringing the Great War to a close. However, all of Bhima's moments of triumph remain unrecognized and unrewarded. If his mother saw glory only in the skills of Arjuna and the wisdom of Yudhishtira, his beloved Draupadi cared only for the beauteous Arjuna.
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M.T. Vasudevan Nair is one of India's best known writers. A Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith awardee, MT is also an acclaimed screenplay writer and director. Randamoozham, from which Bhima: Lone Warrior has been translated is widely acknowledged as his masterpiece.
Gita Krishnankutty has beentranslating works of Malayalam writers, including MT Vasudevan Nair,Lalithambika Anterjanam, Paul Zacharia, Anand and others into English forseveral decades. She has received theKatha Award for Translation twice, in 1993 and 2000, and also the CrosswordAward in 1999 for On the Banks of the Mayyazhi. She lives in Chennai.
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