In this episode, our guest is Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. We speak with her about her current project, a translation of portions of the ancient Sanskrit poem the Mahabharata. We discuss its themes—including love, death, survivor’s guilt, and more—and their enduring relevance in the present moment. We also explore the practice of translation—what can be translated, what can’t be, and why—and how Professor Doniger's Mahabharata translation fits into her larger research and writing interests. The conversation offers insight into both an ancient literary masterpiece and the practice and accomplishment of one of the most important scholar of religion of our time.