TY - BOOK AU - Bandlamudi, Lakshmi TI - Dialogics of Self, The Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History SN - 9789380601458 U1 - 302.23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Anthem Press N1 - About theories and philosophies. Introduction. So what's the story and why this story? About self. Telling tales about lives Who tells what kinds of stories? About memory. The cultural scene : allure of tales in the living texts Remembering the Mahabharata : the story telling time and the time of the story Gendered memories : the heroine's journey in time About interpretation. The reading act Readers, plots, and discourses About self, memory, and interpretation. Tales in lives and lives in tales Reflections on real time in great time ER -