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Over the past six weeks at Disney World, a 21-year-old monorail driver, a 47-year-old actor portraying pirate Captain Jack Sparrow's henchman "Mack" and a 30-year-old stuntman practicing for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular died in on-the-job accidents. Nothing links the deaths except the fact that they all resulted from incidents at the theme park, but the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, along with the local sheriff's department and the Actors' Equity Association, is investigating nonetheless. Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez told TIME this week that the three deaths, separated...
...world's longest poem - over 1.8 million words, containing over one hundred thousand verses and approximately ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined. And now India's celebrated epic the Mahabharata, the writing of which began around 300 B. C. by the venerated Hindu figure Vyasa, is being written again - one 140-character tweet at a time...
...Chindu Sreedharan, 36, lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the Media School in Bournemouth University, England, says he has always had a soft spot for the epic tale, the narrative of a war between cousins Pandavas and Kauravas. "It's more cultural than religious," he says. "Most [Indians] know the storyline. It's something our grandmothers have told us." That and his keen interest in social media led Sreedharan to start experimenting with the epic, writing it in short bursts online to see how it would read in that format. After three weeks of posting entries, his "Epicretold" twitter feed...
...irony of condensing a million-word epic into a series of tweets - of which Sreedharan has so far posted 92 - is not lost on him. Nor is the challenge. "You want to write tight, but you don't want to write so tight that the meaning gets lost for people who're not familiar with the story," he says. "What I'm trying to do is to make sure there is enough drama in every twepisode, so to speak. There's a cliffhanger, wherever possible." (Read TIME's cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live...
...epic could use a little dusting off. The younger generation of Indians, not to mention non-Indians who haven't grown up listening to the epics stories, find the long, complicated tale too difficult to follow. Even in modern retellings - of which there are many - the Hindu philosophy, the wide cast of characters, and the scope of the tale make the Mahabharata a challenging read. Sreedharan says he wants to simplify the story and make it accessible to both young Indians and foreigners alike. "Without giving it the canopy of an epic, if it's projected as just a tale...