Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA.

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata, India.

Foreword Peter Ronald deSouza. Acknowledgements. Introduction.Part I: Narration 1. Of Gambling: A Few Lessons from the Mahbhrata Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 2. Methodology of the Critical Edition of the Mahbhrata Saroja Bhate 3. Significance of the Early Parvans: Modes of Narration, Birth Stories and Seeds of Conflict Sibesh Bhattacharya 4. Understanding Yudhitòhira's Actions: Recasting Karma-Yoga in a Wittgensteinian Mould Enakshi Mitra Part II: Aesthetics 5. Aesthetics of the Mahbhrata: Traditional Interpretations Radhavallabh Tripathi 6. Karnòa in and out of the Mahbhrata Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri Part III:Ethics 7. Care Ethics and Epistemic Justice: Some Insights from the Mahbhrata Vrinda Dalmiya 8. Who Speaks for Whom? The Queen, the Ds and Sexual Politics in the Sabhparvan Uma Chakravarti 9. Moral Doubts, Moral Dilemmas and Situational Ethics in the Mahbhrata Prabal Kumar Sen 10. Of Sleep and Violence: Reading the Sauptikaparvan in Times of Terror Anirban Das 11. Himòs-Ahimòs in the Mahbhrata: The Lonely Position of Yudhitòhira Gangeya Mukherji 12. Just Words: An Ethics of Conversation in the Mahbhrata Arindam Chakrabarti