The Mahabharata through the eyes of Bhima -- valorous, honourable, kind and loving, yet always second This is the story of Bhima, the second son, the man who s always second in line a story never adequately told until M.T. Vasudevan Nair conjured him up from the silences in Vyasa s narrative, the minute gaps that allowed conjectures about what must have happened during those intervals.