Navatman, an organization that calls itself “dedicated to South Asian performing arts”, and is based in NYC, released publicity material for their dance theater film – The Mahabharata of Vengeance & Promises. The material claimed that Mahabharata was NOT a text for Hinduism but rather comes in hundreds of regional versions, religious versions, and languages, and actually anyone from South Asian region can choose to feel that it is part of their history. It adds on, “It’s just an amazing story and piece of historical literature that belongs to ALL traditions, localities and peoples of South Asia”. The promotion material also maligns India, saying it wouldn’t be simple and “safe” doing this in India, so they are doing it in the US.