Coming Back To Life
An excerpt from an article by the same name in the Hindustan Times
After being vandalised in January 2004, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) has moved on. It will star in New Delhi between February 5 and 13 during Kriti Rakshana:Manuscript Week, celebrating the fourth anniversary of the National Mission for Manuscripts, set up by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
BORI will share new findings on the Mahabharata , India’s pillar-of-civilization epic. In its original Sanskrit avatar, authored by the sage Ved Vyasa c. 6th century BCE, this 74,000 verse, 1.8 million word epic is colloquially called Jaya (victory) across India.
After its launch on February 13, the website http://www.namami.org may be viewed for information not only on the Mahabharata but also for a host of individual manuscripts, manuscript collections and printed catalogues, in Hindi and English.