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Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the forest of insecurities, is it possible to discover humanity through pleasure? Can we stop seeing each other as predator, prey, rival, or mate, and rediscover ourselves as lovers? Does the divine reside in sensual delight, in emotional intimacy and in aesthetic experience?
Yes, yes, yes. That is the promise of the Bhagavata.
The Bhagavata is the story of Krishna, known as Shyam to those who find beauty, wisdom, and love in his dark complexion. It is the third great Hindu epic after the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. However, this narration was composed in fragments over thousands of years, first as the Harivamsa, then as the Bhagavata Purana, and finally as the passionate songs of poet-sages in various regional languages.
This book seamlessly weaves the story from Krishna's birth to his death, or rather from his descent to the butter-smeared world of happy women to his ascent from the blood-soaked world of angry men.
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- Vijay
- 03-09-22
Fall in Love with Shyam
An Excellent retelling of Bhagavata... you will be absorbed into this Book and after finishing you will not feel to come out of it from the world of Shyam
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- Monica Gupta
- 10-01-20
thoroughly enjoyed the book. many thanks aut
loved the content, very nicely captured and Devdutt as always is extra ordinary. if given an opportunity would like to meet Mr. Pattanaik.
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- Sankalp t.
- 19-02-21
the god of mythology
devdutt did it again mindblowing book as his all books are great narration by rajiv.
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- Mohit Arora
- 23-10-20
Must Read to know about personalities of Krishna
Loved it. Go for it. It describes multiple personalities of Krishna. Recommended to listen fully.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-06-20
Simply amazing ... Enjoyed it ... Thanks !!..
You have to listen to this one :) ... Really worth it...Good job !! :)
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- saumil mevada
- 03-07-20
Very bad narration
I have listed to other audio books including audiobooks by Devdutt, this by far comes as the worse narration of all, completely spoils the experience.
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- vijay agrawal
- 21-08-19
know krishna in simple terms.
I'll say that at the beginning i thought this book is not worth of my time but slowly i started to enjoy this book. There was nothing which was not know to me in this book but I liked it as it refreshed my knowledge about lord krishna. if anyone wamts to know about krishna please read this book.
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- Praveen Harnoor
- 03-03-22
Very bad pronunciations
Though the book and content are brilliant the reader is really bad especially with pronouncing the names . I wish he had learnt how to read them properly.
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