Chaturvedi Badrinath

Badrinath Chaturvedi was an Indian Administrative Service officer and author. His book The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009.

He was born in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh in August 1933 to Jang Bahadur Chaturvedi and Lakshmi Devi. He died on 17 February 2010.

Works Unity of Life and Other Essays, Edited by Tulsi Badrinath, Oxford University Press, 2016 Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta, Penguin, 2006 The Women of Mahabharata: The Question of Truth, Orient BlackSwan, 2008 The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, Orient BlackSwan, 2006 Finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India, 2000 Dharma, India and the World Order: Twenty-one Essays 1993 Das Mahabharata: Eine Erkundung der conditio humana. In: Seele, Katrin and Seele, Peter (2012): Ordnung in Übergängen. Schneider Verlag Hohengehren. 270-281 (in German)