Karna: Mahakavya

Poet and media personality Nabaraj Lamsal has come up with his new work Karna: a bottom-up epic, hybrid in form, and completely unconventional in content. It takes Karna, the subsided Mahabharata hero as the central character, and retells the epic from a completely different vantage. An epic of guilt and remorse, of revenge and apologies, of valour and cowardice, and above everything, of morality and spiritual corruption, Karna subverts the classical Mahabharata notion that the Pandavas symbolise virtue and that the Kauravas, vice.