Dia, I agree with it on one point. No one really won in the war. One of the message. But chitra b makes Drauapdi a screaming, screeching woman without any sense, who stoked fire of revenge day and night and didn't care about anything else. I don't think epic Drauapdi was that indecisive or that senseless. She was afterall a princess and later a queen, an empress.
Then what duri said, is a bit tweaked by her. In the epic before sying, duri said I lived like a king in luxury and I die kike a kibge, while u have lived in jungle all ur life and now u inherit a Kingdom full of widows.
But it waw as much duryodhan fault as pandave. Panw brokered for peace till ene, duri would not bend a bit. Yoi cannot expect someone to five up their everything for sake of peace. Igs so escapist. Even if right to hp was controversial, IP is something they built, with their hard work. Terms for second game was they would get back after the exile.
Its like pawning something and not getting it back even after u paid full amount.
Still, pandavas dis not go for war outright. They may have gathered their forces, but they kept sending emissaries.
First emissary from dhritarashtra came wirh message yudi should forgoe his claim and live on charity of others. Elder or not, the sheer audacity of the message is massive.
If pandavas had given up their claim what message would they send out for posterity?
War being over I think yudi as a king deserves a lot of kudos. He turned that war ridden, bankrupt country into something prosperous. Much like how Adenauer did to west germany post ww2.
The mb war can be considered as an ancient world war. The reach was till gandhar and madra and as far was pragjyotish in East. Almost till borders of modern Iran and Burma. I doubt such a vast and magnificent war was fought only due to a woman. Her humiliation could have been a huge trigger, but it was not the driving force.
I loved poi as book. I finished it in one sitting overnight. But when I read it again, I find chitra B has so much plot holes, sp draupadi is turned into typical soap opera heroine who cannot even decide properly. She turned on eof strongest and fiercest woman in epic world to practically a Bella swan.
I still love poi as a book, but I don't take it seriously anymore.