Once on a war

Sign adult for an online seminar where we can learn and plead many infinite stories about misconceptions and crusade from opposite a world

Once on a war

Krishna delivers a oration of Gita to Arjuna. Pics/Wikimedia Commons

Mythology, ancient story and fight never destroy to light a clarity of oddity among many of us. From a battlefields of Kurukshetra to a trenches of Troy, fight has fuelled a imaginations of people opposite cultures. Be it a description of captious Arjuna or injured favourite Achilles, a notions of kingship and amicable sequence were all made on a battlefield. The Mythological Project (TMP) has organized a two-day seminar that delves into a universe of bloody feuds and heartless fight in ancient times. Arundhati Dasgupta and Utkarsh Patel, co-founders of TMP, will lead a session.

An painting from a story of a Iliad, 1892
An painting from a story of a Iliad, 1892

The seminar will try how fight has been portrayed in ancient texts — mostly in epics, legends and misconceptions — and in a folk literatures of opposite cultures. They will cover Indian, Norse, Greek, Persian and other ancient civilisations during a session. It will demeanour during a varying interpretations of informed stories and of not-so-familiar ones to try a mixed ideas that are dark within these narratives. This will assistance rise a nuanced bargain of fight strategies, sacrifices, politics, and a issue of war. “War is an eventuality that has dominated a universe for a prolonged time. Our seminar will tell a assembly what wars meant to a ancient people and how they were documented in myths, legends, and other early narratives,” explains Patel.

Arundhati DasguptaArundhati Dasgupta

Participants can learn how ancient beliefs and ideas about fight were initial recognised and how they are applicable in a contemporary context. Dasgupta tells us, “They will also sign how misconceptions and legends enclose a resources of knowledge, and how this information is incorporated into a beliefs and ideologies opposite cultures of a world.”

Utkarsh Patel
Utkarsh Patel

TMP has been charity mythology and enlightenment workshops, both online and offline, for over 5 years. They demeanour to foster, understand, and inspire discussions and debates about a change that these stories have on us today. “We work closely with a accumulation of organisations to safety and say a huge, unsubstantial story that is the common inheritance,” Dasgupta signs off.

On: Jun 17 and 18; 7 pm to 8.30 pm
Log on to: themythologyproject.com
Call: 9619235647
Cost: Rs 650