How Do I Tell These Stories?
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<p>Bringing ancient Indian tales back to life with fun stories. With love and levity.</p>
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3/30/2026
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June 2, 2026
Karna - The First Son
<p>He was born first. He was found by a charioteer and raised by his family on a riverbank. He is the greatest archer of his era. He is fighting for the wrong side. And his birth mother has known where he was the entire time. He is Karna. </p><p></p><p>SOURCES CITED THIS EPISODE: </p><p>• Bibek Debroy — The Mahabharata (10 vols.), Penguin Books India, 2010–2014</p><p>• Devdutt Pattanaik — Jaya</p><p>• Ramesh Menon — The Mahabharata (retelling)</p><p>EPISODE CALLBACKS: </p><p>• Kunti's boon from Durvasa — full story: Ep 10 (go listen if you haven't)</p><p>• Duryodhana's origins and Gandhari: Ep 9</p><p>• The three brothers and the Kuru house: Ep 9</p><p>• Hastinapur and the world the boys grow up in:Ep 8</p><p>NEXT EPISODE:</p><p>Season 2. The boys are in the palace. A teacher arrives. A rivalry takes its shape. And the women of this story are extraordinary. They mastermind the narrative, the men execute it.</p><p>CONNECT:</p><p>Subscribe wherever you listen.</p><p>Tell one person — that is how this show finds its people.</p><p></p>
May 8, 2026
The Three Brothers of Kuru Family - Part 2: Pandu & Vidur
<p>Three brothers engineered by Satyavati. One blind. One pale. One the wisest person in every room - and never allowed to be king. </p><p>This is the story of a king who delivered everything the dynasty asked for and lost it all in one moment in a forest. And the wisest person in Hastinapur, who speaks truth his entire life and is never listened to. This is the story of Pandu & Vidur.</p><p>This is the generation that built the conditions of the Mahabharat that we know.</p><p></p><p>SOURCES:</p><ul><li>Bibek Debroy: The Mahabharata (10 vols.), Penguin Books India, 2010–2014</li><li>Ramesh Menon: The Mahabharata (retelling)</li><li>Devdutt Pattanaik: Jaya</li></ul><p></p><p>EPISODE CALLBACKS</p><ul><li>Durvasa: Bonus episode on Angry Sages</li><li>Niyoga and Vyasa: Ep 7</li><li>Satyavati as the GOAT matriarch: Ep 7</li><li>Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, and the succession crisis: Ep 9</li></ul><p></p><p>NEXT EPISODE:</p><p>A palace full of children. A rivalry that starts with something as small as a game and grows into an epic battle to remember.</p><p></p><p>CONNECT:</p><p>Subscribe wherever you listen. Tell one person — that is how this show finds its people.</p>
May 1, 2026
The Three Brothers of Kuru Family - Part 1 - Dhritarashtra
<p>Three brothers engineered by Satyavati. One blind. One pale. One the wisest person in every room - and never allowed to be king. This is the story of the blind prince - Dhritarashtra and his family. His wife Gandhari who blindfolds herself on the day she marries. For life. Voluntarily.</p><p>This is the generation that built the conditions of the Mahabharat that we know.</p><p></p><p>SOURCES:</p><ul><li>Bibek Debroy: The Mahabharata (10 vols.), Penguin Books India, 2010–2014</li><li>Ramesh Menon: The Mahabharata (retelling)</li><li>Devdutt Pattanaik:Jaya</li></ul><p></p><p>EPISODE CALLBACKS:</p><ul><li>Niyoga and Vyasa: Ep 7</li><li>Gandhara as political ally:Ep 8</li><li>Durvasa: Ep 6.1 Bonus</li><li>Satyavati as a GOAT matriarch: Ep 7</li></ul><p></p><p>NEXT EPISODE:</p><p>Part 2 of the story. Pandu & Vidura.</p><p></p><p>CONNECT:</p><p>Subscribe wherever you listen.</p><p>Tell one person, please. That is how this show finds its people.</p><p></p>
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