{"id":8110,"date":"2009-08-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/10\/hindu-epic-mahabharata-retold-tweet-by-tweet\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-epic-mahabharata-retold-tweet-by-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/10\/hindu-epic-mahabharata-retold-tweet-by-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Epic Mahabharata Retold&#8211;Tweet By Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSTRE57421G20090805\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 10, 2009: An ancient Indian epic about princes, demigods and a cataclysmic war is getting a makeover on Twitter &#8212; 140 characters at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Chindu Sreedharan, a U.K.-based lecturer, is retelling the Mahabharata using the micro-blogging service, hoping to lure readers with creative snippets posted in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not quite about capturing the philosophical richness of the original Mahabharata &#8212; but presenting a version that will, hopefully, suit the medium,&#8221; Sreedharan, 36, told Reuters in an e-mail interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hunch was, to keep the follower hooked, you needed a tale that provided for plenty of dramatic tension. Mahabharata does that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.reuters.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 10, 2009: An ancient Indian epic about princes, demigods and a cataclysmic war is,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}