GO NOW TO GHATOTKACHSERIES II

Dear Reader,

I have written and posted 80 essays on GHATOTKACHSERIES between June 2005 and May 2008 and they are all here for your reading pleasure.

The monthly archives however, have grown a little long in the tooth, somewhat unweildy.

So, I have opened a successor blog GHATOTKACHSERIES II http://ghatotkachseries2.blogspot.com/

In the beginning, till the search engines pick up on the new blog you will probably need to use the full address to access it. But,please do visit.

At present GHATOTKACHSERIES II has just one essay on the recent oil price surge on it, but, I expect to populate it soon enough.

I've been asked about the long title on the masthead to this blog.

Well,the name GHATOTKACHSERIES was inspired by a reading of Menon's The Mahabharata when I realised that GHATOTKACH was brave and immensely strong, a giant, if he chose to be. And he was genetically part Manushya (from father Bheema of the Pandavas), part Deva(from Bheema's blood father, hence G's grandfather VAYU, the Wind God), and part Rakshas(from his mother, spirit of the forest, Hidimba). A product then, as it were, of all three realms.

I found the name,the parentage and the character in the Mahabharata with his one great day in the sun during the epic battle, immensely inspiring. It was the turning point at Kurukshetra, when Karna had to use his infallible but one-trick weapon, to kill GHATOTKACH, to stop him decimating the Kauravas. The great weapon, Karna's potent boon, went, in desperation,to fell GHATOTKACH, rather than being held in reserve for Arjuna. Lord Krishna smiled and the rest as they say...

And so, dear reader, we have come to the end of this line. I thank you for your patronage and wish you well in the future.

GHATOTKACHSERIES does end here.

But please do come and read me on GHATOTKACHSERIES II.

Gautam Mukherjee
11th June 2008
New Delhi