Parva: a review

Parva is Kannada author Bhyrappa's interpretation of Mahabharata (Mahabharata in my opinion is one of the greatest epics in this world). It has been written with a curious mind, re-reinterpreting the various stories/episodes of Mahabharata, that we all have come to know, in it's barest form. By bare I mean the stories have been made naked of any adornments and mystical properties. Of course since it is his interpretation he has added in his interpretations to the mystical events that might not be what really might have happened. But the interpretations do make a lot of sense. So if you wonder how Gandhari being one woman can have 100 children when clearly she is so much less than 100 years old, there is a logical explanation for this. If you wonder who the Deva's were in Mahabharata there is a logical explanation for it. If you wonder how could a 100 year old Bhishma fight a war, there is an explanation for that. If you wonder why Draupadi had 5 husbands and how she managed with 5, there is a good description of the arrangement. The war itself is depicted in its bare naked goriness with the resulting carnage, corpses, vultures, stench and all that.
It is a great work. It does raise a lot of questions that are left unanswered. There are parts where Yuyudhana (Krishna's friend) starts asking questions to himself and then says he will get it clarified from Krishna. But that never happens and the reader is left to their own imagination to answer these questions. But once you are exposed to Bhyrappa's interpretation, reading another version of Mahabharata will definitely be interesting.
Anyways, my random thought is that it would be interesting to see a timeline "diff view" of this epic with it's various modifications.

p.s I bought the book online at biblio.com