Govinda, The Aryavrata Chronicles

Author: Krishna Udayasankar

Review:
Very rare are the occasions when u pick up the book from the store out of curiosity, without any background or publicity and the book manages to surpass all your expectations. The book is simply mind boggling. Based on the characters on Mahabharata, the book has nothing else in common with the epic. The characters are twisted, plundered to the core - but well keeping in mind what the other authors are doing, u can overlook it. The plot is intense, ruthless, stunning imagination and very very powerful storytelling. I raved about Asura, but this one just bowled me out. Glad that Indian authors are coming out so well. But at the same time,am surprised that this is one of the lesser publicised books.Cant wait to finish Books-2 and 3. Krishna Udayasankar- take a bow.!!!

Recommended: 👍

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Mytho-history

There are lot of books which are being written these days which they call as "mytho-history". Many authors are coming forward to recite history as they percieve it. Lot of modern authors put their thoughts into it, where they are trying to find bad in good, good in bad- all shades of gray. But may be one thing we fail to notice is people whom we are talking in B.C.s cannot be like us,could not have thought like us. They had a complete different set of value systems- the vedas and the upanishads imparted knowledge and dictated life. The life was ruled by doctrines and principles, not by free thinking. May be Krishna is the only one who started the whole process of free thinking. So may be we should give a benefit of doubt to the good sides of both the epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata and accept their virtues rather than glorifying the goodness factors of the villians,because it appealed to the values of those times. At least times when there were values and people believed in them. A just king(s) cannot be condemned to whole life with a single mistake !!