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Mahabharata on Twitter – A Narrative Experiment with Tweets

Mahabharata is one of the longest epic - 100,000 stanzas – and is one of the most important holy scriptures in Hindu religion. Twitter is a short messaging service – a tweet can only 140 characters – that works over multiple networks and devices. Mahabharat, which is an ocean, is being taken drop by drop and is slowly being collected in Twitter. The person behind this unique literary attempt is Chindu Sreedharan, a Kerala-born journalist doing media research in England . According to him, Mahabarata on Twitter is a retelling of the Mahabharata – an experiment into if/how a narrative can be developed as tweets. The narrative used on twitter is mainly inspired by the novel Bhimsen by Prem Panickar. Mahabharata on Twitter is seen through the eyes of Bhima. A single message on twitter should be limited to 140 characters. You can read it on the internet or on your mobile. Here are few tweets A tweet - We had all lived in the forest. Us five, Mother, father Pandu