A sepia-toned painting of a hillside village with multiple multi-story buildings, stairs leading down to a river, and umbrellas along the riverbank.

I am 8000 years old. In being human,
I have been all that man can be
and has been:
I have seen it all.

Chaturvedi Badrinath

1933 - 2010

Chaturvedi Badrinath received the 2009 Sahitya Akademi award for The Mahabharata: An Inquiry In The Human Condition.

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An elderly man with glasses and gray hair sitting at a desk in a room filled with books. He is holding a pipe and wearing a peach-colored shirt. Behind him is a large window with yellow curtains, and a reading lamp is attached to the window frame. There are many books stacked on the desk and arranged on a bookshelf in the background.