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Shivkumar is a big thinker, an erudite physician quick with an apt quotation, whose Westwood office is stacked with Sanskrit volumes of the Mahabharata alongside books about late Bruins basketball coach John Wooden.

The entities were first mentioned in the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic poem narrating the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, which later served as the basis for the events of the Bhagavad Gita.

In fact, the "Gita "that Oppenheimer invests his mind in is derived from a scene in the "Mahabharata."

Someday, he said, he also hopes to adapt the Sanskrit epic “Mahabharata” in his own style, a dream project he’s been teasing for years.

Writing back to the empire, asserting its independence in "chutnified" Indian English, this masterpiece of magic realism borrows the device of the storytelling scribe from the "Mahabharata," an ancient Indian epic.