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The Sanskrit poem
Mahabharata depicts the warrior Arjuna firing arrows into the Earth to produce water. "Nothing's changed -- now we do the same with drills and machines," says illustrator Shilo Shiv Suleman (above), a speaker at Wired 2011. "We replaced magic with machinery." So Suleman, who's based in Bangalore, decided to create a new epic that would combine the two -- using the iPad.
Khoya is the first interactive book in an eight-part series that mixes a traditional Indian aesthetic with modern storytelling. For instance, augmented reality shows "apsaras" (the Indian equivalent of nymphs) dancing in the trees of a garden. "Epic stories such as the
Mahabharata and Ramayana have been told in different styles," says Suleman, 22. "But it's exciting to create one's own mythology from the old archetypes to <span class="s2">deal with new issues."
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