On Friday, Dr. Sohini S. Pillai presented her work on different version of the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic. Dr. Pillai is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College, where she teaches courses on religious traditions in South Asia, religion in cinema, and epic literature. She is a comparatist of South Asian religious narratives and her area of specialization is the Mahabharata and the Ramayana epic traditions. She was brought here through the English and Writing department’s Scholar Symposium program through Dr. Sucheta Kanjilal, an English Professor at the University of Tampa.