Nalopakhyanam: The Science of Victory

This tale whose origin is lost in the mists of time and which we find inserted in the great epic of the poet Vyasa tells us how heroism guided by wisdom allows two beings crushed under the weight of contrary circumstances to emerge victorious from a terrible ordeal.

This story that begins and ends like a fairy tale, however, is anything but a story removed from "real life". Rather, it is presented to us by the poet himself as a story containing some of life's deepest and most useful truths. ...