Ummm!!...By seeing te title te viewers Esp. Literature students cant help 2 refuse 2 thnk abt te lines written on Helen....Helen of Troy---- "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" BUT through ths ppt...I'm coming up vth an articulate and candid argument that War isnt mainly fought 4te sake of woman/ r 4te love of 1s lady...BUT WAR IS WAGED 2 CLAIM TE PARAMOUNT POWER...n which women are no more liing beings but r living things tat works as a symbol/ indicator of te dominant discourse of war ..ie...te POWER

2. •War is a properly planned and structured armed conflict fought with two
different geographical regions or two groups having drastic differing
opinions on any concerned matters.
•The modern Polemology claims that ‘Power’ is the prominent factor for the
root cause of the war.
•The other dominant war causing factors are,
Economical factor
Moral and Ethical clashes
Personal Vendetta
•John.G.Stoessinger, in his book ‘Why Nations Go For War’ says that both
the opponent groups are fighting for the need of justice.
•So, depending on the different perspectives the two groups in Mahabharata
are waging war for their respective justice.
•Personal vendetta is the another major factor of the Mahabharata war.

3.  How war and women are related
 Proto humane civilization
 Effects of war on the women
 Practices of Sati and Jowar
Harem being rampaged.
‘Prized Possession’
‘Land, Food and Women.’
 Women court artists turned into a prostitute (Women’s
writing in India by Sushie.K.Tharu and K.Lalita).
• So, thus women is very much inter-related with war as
being the vector agent to the victim of war. Hence, the
perspectives of women on the war is a phenomenal factor
that cannot be overlooked.

4. “Let all those who made me suffer burn in the hell
of hate, pain and humiliation, as I am burning now.
I shall make each one of them endure the worst”-
Chap 10-Draupadi’s revenge.
 This novel tells us that Draupadi is the catalyst of the
impending war(”start of the finishing”-Uruvi)
 Revenge
“And I want revenge. And if war is the answer, so
be it. Is that too much to ask?”
 Justice for the lost honour
 War has to be waged at any cost
“Who can salvage my lost
honour? Who can give me back
my prestige.”
“And if my husbands
do not declare war, I shall make my father and brother and my sons fight
for me”
 So, Draupadi stays with Pandavas during the 13year
exile.

5.  Kunti is concerned with the lives of her son and well
being of Gandhari. “There will be no war, no
killings. Haven’t we gone through the worst already?
How can we talk about war and death so easily?
Duryodhana and Dushasana will pay for the
humiliation of Draupadi but not by death. They are my
nephews and Karna is my….my Uruvi’s husband. He is
like my son.(Chap 10: Draupadi’s revenge)

6.  Medicine practitioner.
 Karna was the world for Uruvi.
 Uruvi believed that family feuds result in disputes.
 War is the harbinger of constant worries and fear.
I have lived with it all through childhood, tormented by constant
worry, and I have seen my mother do the same, and my
grandmother before her as well,
 Uruvi believes that war destroys each and everything.
“it will destroy all of us eventually”
 Uruvi learns from her father King Vahusha that dishonour
can kill the decency of any person if he is humiliated which
in turn leads to personal vendetta causing war.

7.  Uruvi isnt bothered about the triumph but about the
terror
I can see only the horror, the suffering, the aftermath of
war.
Then the other women characters like Bhanumati and
Gandhari are just concerned with the fear of losing
their beloved ones.

8.  From Uruvi’s notion of war in relative to Kunti a new
picture of Kunti apart from being a dutiful wife of Pandu
and mother of Pandavas is conveyed.
 Craving and keeping up the social status.
Mother -in-law.
Concerned only about the Pandavas.
 Then, Uruvi gives new insights by challenging and
disapproving the below factors with her perspective on the
war
 The act of territorial expanding.
 The belief of ‘Heroic death’.
 The true code of life of Kshatriya.

9. “Death bared its fangs as never before, stinging each family and soldier with its
venom. Thousands were butchered that day and in the next seventeen
horrifying days. Strangers killed strangers, brothers slaughtered brothers,
cousins murdered cousins, uncles killed nephews and nephews massacred
uncles. The learned gurus and the shishyas—the teachers and the pupils—
learnt bloody lessons of murder and mayhem. The skies were torn with the
wails of mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and orphans. Prowling jackals and
watchful vultures ripped apart the slain soldiers and dead animals.”
- Narrator in chap 22:The eighteen day war.
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