Episode#75 The next day when the news of Duryodhana downfall and ultimate death reached the Royal Court, his mother Gandhari fainted on the spot with the trauma! Her husband King Dhritarashtra and her 100 daughter-in-laws were devastated by the calamity that befell on them. Especially, Duryodhana wife Bhanumati was totally heart-broken, she had earlier lost her son Laxmana Kumar in the battle and now it was her husband! Her daughter Laxmani was hit by the worst traumatic condition since she has lost not only her brother and father but her beloved soul-mate too. The great war of Mahabharata is an overwhelming, horrendous and appalling depiction of the emotional devastation that befalls on the unfortunate women who lose their ever precious men in the war. It focuses upon the dichotomy of the male and female elements of war. It vividly portrays the dreadful consequences of war on humans, particularly on its women-folk and children! The main stay of Mahabharata boils down in the end to...

Episode#42 When Vasudev Krishna heard about Samba he was distressed and he asked his elder brother Balarama help to rescue his son. Balarama readily agreed to go to Hastinapur to rescue his favourite nephew. Since Balarama was Guru of Duryodhana, he was welcomed in Hastinapur with great dignity in the presence of all elders of Kuru family including Duryodhana. Balarama apologized for Samba's childish act and requested them to pardon him! The Kauravas were perplexed about Laxmani impending marriage! Balarama assured them they would gladly accept Laxmani as their daughter-in-law, but Duryodhana was against the marriage as he was not ready that his qualified daughter marries to illiterate brat Samba that too the son of his enemy Krishna - today he was in such a dilemma and had a no choice but to accept Balarama proposal...! After a long silence Duryodhana replied "With all due respect to Guru Balarama, I cannot disobey your order, but you will understand my feelings as a fath...

Episode#33 Later when Pandavas lived in the forest, Jayadhrata married to Dusshala to the only sister of Kauravas visited Draupadi when she was alone; she offered him fruits and milk and asked him to wait till her husbands returned. She had no inkling of his purpose of his visit but felt uncomfortable when he said, "I came here to see you" Draupadi was shocked by the audacity of the man when he offered her to join him to Sindhu, since he could provide her much better life than the forest life, with righteous rage, she replied "I am the queen of Indraprashta, the wife of Pandavas, how dare you speak to me like this?" Jayadhrata sneered at her "When you have no kingdom, so you cannot be queen, you are just beggar, a whore of five husbands, you are publicly disrobed by the Kauravas" humiliating her, he grabbed her and drove her in his chariot, Draupadi screamed "My husbands will kill you" but her wailings fells on deaf ears." A passerby who...

Episode#32 Duryodhana was heartbroken when he received the news that Subhadra married Arjuna, suddenly he went into depression; lost all interest in his kingdom and the materialistic world! Crestfallen as he was, he decided to opt for renunciation but with great difficulty, Sakuni and Karna consoled him and advised him to forget and move ahead in live. The cunning Sakuni blamed Vasudev Krishna for planning the abduction (Duryodhana remembered to what Subhadra said to kidnap her that is her destiny) Balarama was not happy with the idea of sharing Draupadi among five brothers, he also was not happy the way Yudhishtira gambled away his kingdom and his wife Draupadi, according to him Pandavas are biggest fools on the earth. Duryodhana was very angry and he decided to take a revenge on Arjuna as well on Vasudev Krishna. Soon after Subhadra's marriage, Duryodhana got married to Princess Bhanumati the daughter of King Chitranagada of Kalinga. The only pre-requisite for the groom in he...