It is 2021 and most of our personal “Mahabharata” can be seen unfolding in the emotional trash of Twitter. There are explicit and detailed threads floating around this very moment, outlining the details of how someone’s relationship started and ended. Twitter is quite the platform for holding someone to account: it brings together long-lost friends and quickly exposes social injustice. But what if we reversed the scenario? What would it look like if the Mahabharata characters had Twitter? For the uninformed, the magnum opus is dramatic to say the least. There are two groups of brothers who fight: the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The famous war is known as the Battle of Kurukshetra and at one point Draupadi marries five brothers at a time. Twitter user Shivam Bahuguna may not have anticipated what he was starting with when he tweeted: “Tweet like you’re a random person with Twitter in the Mahabharata.” if the characters were constantly tweeting.
Tweet like you’re a random person with Twitter in the Mahabharata – Shivam Bahuguna (@JanusBlinked) December 6, 2021
“What’s happening in Kurukshetra: a thread (1 / n) ????” – Shivam Bahuguna (@JanusBlinked) December 6, 2021
The Twitter user imagined what the battle would look like if it were tweeted live by football journalist Fabrizio Romano.
Tweeted by Fabrizio Romano: “Shri Krishna to the army of Pandava, HERE WE GO!” The god agreed to sign a war contract with the army of Pandava. He will oversee, acting as a tank driver and advisor to their archery ace Arjuna. #Battle of Kurukshetra #Pandavas « — Shivam Bahuguna (@JanusBlinked) December 6, 2021
The following tweet alludes to the bed of arrows of the character of Mahabharata Bhishma.
And the Draupadi saga.
” Only #understood this crazy story guys. There’s this daughter Draupadi who came home with her husband, and the mother-in-law told them to ‘share it’ so now she’s married to FIVE brothers wtfff ”- meghnad ???? (@Memeghnad) December 7, 2021
Mahabharata x ‘Rabb vi khel hai khele’ de Siddharth Malhotra et Kiara Advani vedette ‘Shershah’, ça vous tente ?
Someone has thought of a parallel Siddhant Chaturvedi vs. Ananya Pandey and Arjun vs. Ekalavya, and that’s right.
The common thread seems to have aroused a great deal of interest in the ancient text. The original poster tweeted: “People have sent me a message saying they bought the Mahabharata last night due to the interest generated online.” be reinterpreted in each era, to Ramanand Sagar for making it come alive on screens and to the Twitter algorithm for this reach. Hope you had fun revisiting this timeless classic. It shows that the things that trouble us truly remain timeless over generations; only now you can get a tweet by lying down in your bed of arrows.
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